Posted on 07/16/2018 7:46:03 AM PDT by rktman
All of the major television networks use their primetime entertainment shows to push a pro-gun control agenda. Liberal television executives apparently think that they have the power to change Americans’ attitudes.
Not liking guns has been portrayed as cool for a long time. It is an old theme that dates back to the original 1980s MacGyver series, in which the titular character avoids using guns and expresses his aversion to them. This theme has continued with the current remake.
But the push to sway public opinion really seems to have picked up. This spring on ABC’s “The Crossing,” the sheriff’s young son says, “I don’t like guns” when a deputy suggests he may someday replace his father. The deputy appears discomforted by the exchange.
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***It is an old theme that dates back to the original 1980s MacGyver series,***
It goes back farther to around 1968 when the media led anti-gun hysterics after the murder of Bobby Kennedy.
So many anti-gun anti-hunting movies were made during those years it is hard to keep track of all of them.
Every star of a TV show got in their anti-gun hits, and abti-huntinge hits.
Among those I remember were...
The new People
All In the Family
McCloud
Heck Ramsey
Hawaii 5-O
Quinsy, M.E.
Streets of San Francisco
Revenge for a Rape
A Gun In the House
Say Goodby
The Guns of Autumn
Family Ties
Bless the Beasts and the Children
And way too many anti-gun news stories passing off as “Neutral” but were so anti-gun they were pitiful, such as the CBS report on California’s attempt to pass Prop 15, a gun ban and registration scheme back in 1982.
The night before the vote, CBS had a “news” program on the coming vote which was nothing but free anti-gun propaganda to get the gun law passed. A guaranteed pass, he gun law failed.
That show was on in the 1970's, when there was a virtual ban on violence on TV. Cop shows would usually feature a murder by the bad guys, but the perp would never get wasted at program's end, making for rather dull crime shows. I think it swung back the other way in the 80's with shows like Miami Vice.
I think I remember that episode.
A favorite one is “Welcome To Our Branch Office” where businessmen are conned into paying protection to a bogus 5-0 squad.
They are not “vehicles” if no one “rides” in them.
Nothing new. The pay channels follow a pattern right around season 3-4 they start lacing in the leftist BS, every time. Even Games of Thrones. By the end of last season every kingdom was run by women.
This author is joking right? All MSM entertainment is almost 100% propaganda... has been for decades... whether it be the episode of Maude and her Abortion or Supergirl and the fact the military/covert arm she works for is now suddenly going to save the planet from all sorts of unkown alien threats without guns or lethal force, or her sister being a lesbian and wanting a baby?
take your pick... TV is the enemy. And we let it into our homes voluntarily, expose our children to it... etc etc.
Best thing you can do is honestly throw it out
FYI....... there is a revolution in progress called streaming tv.
The sources Britbox and Acorn exhibit almost none of the bias you dislike. The same is true of NETFLIX where I have experienced little to none of the PC crap you noted. I’m sure someone will raise some porogramming example but it is certainly not in the mainstream.
Netflix and youtube learn what you like aad cull the stuff you do not. It is not your daddy’s oldsmobile
Last night, the perp on Endeavor definitely solved the arrest and prison problem.
The villain stepped on a mine.
Those 70s shows were a product of their time.
I don’t watch Fear the Walking Dead so I wouldn’t know. I watched the first season and my overall takeaway was that it was a cast of characters that I didn’t like and didn’t care about at all, doing mostly nothing. So I dropped it.
She's not against killing evil creatures from other worlds, she against guns. She sends her husband down into some hold where these snake monsters try to eat everybody, but he doesn't have a gun, even though they have a 3-D printer they know can print a gun. He has to kill them with a knife.
Because gun control makes us all safer. In the far future. In space. Stranded. Fighting alien eels.
...The author must watch a whole lot of television...
John Lott does an astonishing amount of research. Lunatic liberals hate him.
Two excellent John Lott books:
“More guns.Less Crime” and “The War on Guns.”
No PC Crap on Netflix? Wow your Netflix must come in from bizarreworld because the Netflix l see is loaded.
Andy picked up a gun when necessary. In several episodes, actually.
Maybe not.
But the way they handled Barney, they for sure would have been against Hi-capacity Magazines.
I recall reading in a 1970s issue of American Rifleman, they quoted Jack Lord as favouring a national ban on handguns.
That show wasn’t anti gun.
While not anti-gun per se, it was occasionally pointed out that Andy Taylor chose to not carry a gun.
In fact, it was the basic premise of an entire show: Season 5, Episode 23: TV or not TV:"
After Andy is profiled in a national sheriff's magazine as the 'Sheriff Without A Gun', a television production team comes to town to research a possible TV show.
Regards,
There is at least one notable exception: Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing", ... But interestingly Google is complicit in the mentality because the entire first page of Images Googled have only two with firearms, and then only in the background.
Tim
Hector and Tim
But the way they handled Barney, they for sure would have been against Hi-capacity Magazines.
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Give us a break. Barney was an incompetent goof ball and that was part of his portrayal. It was comedy.
Thank you. It fit into Mayberry being a small, peaceful town.
Love Hector Elizondo.
He was in the original “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” with Robert Shaw and Walter Mathau.
What a movie. Great cast and great caper flick. Love good caper flicks.
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