Posted on 10/12/2017 6:13:59 AM PDT by rktman
Last week Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 Las Vegas concert-goers using automatic weapons. Reportedly aided by “bump stocks” that made his semi-automatic rifles into automatic weapons, his killing spree was the worst in U.S. history.
People were understandably horrified that that he was able to fire what amounted to machine guns into a crowd. Yet similar weapons were being fired in movie theaters around the country. Three of the top five movies at the box office featured characters blasting away with automatic weapons. Two -- Kingsman: Golden Circle and American Assassin -- included so many examples of such violence that the numbers were difficult even to count.
An analysis of the top five movies in theaters the week before the attack (Sept. 22-28) showed incredible big-screen carnage, including characters firing handguns and employing a wide range of other forms of violence.
Because The Lego Movie is animated, it wasn’t included in the tally. So just four movies -- Kingsman: Golden Circle, American Assassin, It and Mother! -- featured 589 incidents of violence, including 212 incidents of gun violence. The total body count of the four was at least 192. At least 108 times, some kind of automatic weapon was used. Those guns fired so many rounds, so rapidly, an accurate tally of shots or even shooters was impossible.
To underscore that point, the Kingsman trailer was so filled with violence it is difficult to tally. This 1 minute 56 second clip shows four scenes of characters deploying several different automatic weapons, as well as pistols, a lasso and rockets.
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By actors who are anti-gun.
Yes indeed. I’ve heard it said that since Canadian laws have prohibited persons from owning automatic firearms since January 1, 1978 (through grandfathering), why are movies depicting Arnold and Sylvester cutting up people with such types of firearms allowed to be shown in Canada?
I’ve also read that in Switzerland, “Rambo” style movies are not very popular there and that is a country where kids go to shooting practice on weekend mornings and where adult males are issued an automatic rifle as part of their military service and citizens keep large private collections of handguns and other types of firearms.
Lead by example, Hollywood, lead by example!
They always put the most dramatic scenes in the trailers.
I just watched “Death Wish 3” starring Charles Bronson, from 1985, and one of the characters, and Bronson himself, pulled out of a closet, two old .30 Cal machine guns, complete with belt ammo, and used them to fight off, and kill, the bad guys. Cool!
Hollywood and the Weinsteinites have been foisting a culture of sex, violence and death upon the American psyche for decades. Will it ever stop?
It's for the CHILDREN!!!
I feel faint...
(Is there a market for pearls made of smelling salts?)
But it’s ok if it’s from Hollywood! Because they are good decent folks there who only want to please. Right, Harvey?
Don’t have the link handy but Swiss gun laws aren’t anything to write home about. Still govt controlled.
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it in the opening comment. Anymore, you need a pound of salt with any msm commentary. A grain just doesn’t cut it any longer.
By actors who are anti-gun.
Then they donate some money to anti-gun idiots to make themselves feel better ,LOL
Agreed, and I know this through David Kopel’s 1992 book that describes the Swiss firearms culture as being very community service oriented and controlled (like other important aspects of society and culture there). Even with licencing and registration, firearms ownership is very visible and highly regarded there (with my previously mentioned examples) and those are things that anti gunners in North America and their wealthy friends in Hollywood and New York and Toronto seek to supress.
Art imitates life.
It’s funny to see the posters with them holding guns looking all ferocious and all then come out being anti-gun. Typical liberal actor hypocrisy. But it’s all for the money.
I remember the days when Boggy, Cagney, and Robinson only used a 38 or a 45 and fewer shots. All you saw was an occasional stain on their shirts in black and white. I watched “The Roaring 20’s” a couple of nights ago on You Tube, considering it was made right after the days of Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd the ultra violence wasn’t there, and how the hell did they ever manage to make a gangster picture without using the “F” word? Hate to say this, but to me, 1968 was the year we started to die as a country with morals.
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