Posted on 07/16/2019 10:48:08 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Hypocrisy, call your office. If Lasher and her Moms Demand Action crowd ardently wish to "reduce the gun culture in America," why not do a bit of introspection first? You can crawl all over the group website and its list of "campaigns" and not find a word about activism against the entertainment industry — TV, movies, video games, anything.
TV shows are still pushing gun violence to goose the ratings. A recent study by the Parents Television Council reported that the degree of gun violence on prime-time broadcast TV has actually increased in the last five years since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. In a review of the November 2017 sweeps period after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, it found that 175 of 287 episodes contained violence (almost 61%) and 112 of them (39%) had scenes of gun violence.
It's dramatically worse at the movies. Matt Philbin of the Media Research Center reported last fall that an astounding 589 incidents of violence were featured in "Kingsman: The Golden Circle," "American Assassin," Stephen King's "It" and "mother!" And that's just four top-grossing movies from the week before the Las Vegas attack. The films had no less than 212 incidents of gun violence, and the body count was at least 192.
Hollywood producers and actors have no problem mudslinging against the "barbaric" National Rifle Association and blaming it — and President Trump, and Fox, and anything conservative that moves — for mass shootings. But they refuse to march a single step or utter a single word of complaint against the greatest transgressors: themselves.
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And all own guns (trust me, I know) because they’re all drug eaters and/or drug dealers.
The newspapers have been pushing gun control since John Kennedy was murdered by a communist.
TV has been pushing gun control since Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant.
Earn their living using guns in movies.
Looks like they are confused.
They should be pushing for communist muslim immigrant control. Too late though. The openly campaigned for obama.
Gun are evil, we just feature them all the time to sell stuff.
Sexual harassment is terrible, but we do it all the time.
Poverty is heroic, we love it as a CONCEPT.
Open borders is great, we just want them to live away from us.
Quiet peons. We’ll let you know what to think.
Like I’m going to spend money watching anything produced by liberal cokeheads.
Wow. Violence is one thing, but to think of the lows the industry has stooped to in terms of its portrayal of sex and sexuality, of women in particular...it's on a whole other level.
All movies are written, defacto, by the Chinese government.
Just like Hollywood caved to the Nazis in the 1930s.
Pretty much every celeb who whines about guns has carried on for a role. Funny, it’s ok for them to make $$$$ off prop guns.
Needles is where it’s at
In Needles, a ‘sanctuary’ for gun owners—and ‘a little jab in the eyes’ for California
I’ve been watching a lot of Netflix movies lately...most are recently made. It’s incredible how many are about a dead or dying Earth...BECAUSE of mankind’s bad management. I scroll past those particular movies. Hollywood has become a vicious enemy.
Pretty much why I now watch foreign productions, like KDramas, and Polish TV Series.
Gun are evil, unless the government uses them against citizens.
Sexual harassment is terrible, but ok when it is Bill Clinton or Jeffery Epstein.
Maybe we just need an Entertainment TAX, say $100 every time a GUN is shown in a Movie, every time it is shown.
I saw part of the 2nd Guardians of the Galaxy sci fi movie where they ramped up the violence and stopped watching after seeing 90+ aliens being killed by 2 other aliens with guns acting “cool” and also hearing Kurt Russell ‘sing’.....
High body counts and no remorse but flippant remarks and bad singing to boot!
My guess would be 95%.
I would welcome the day Hollywood gets sued by a victim of crime where the perp was copying a violent scene that they saw in the movies.
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