I live in Hollywood, Tinseltown, the Dream Factory, et. al., and I know how many Hollywood types are for gun control. Oh, but then they make lots of shoot-‘em-up action movies, where the heroes battle it out against the baddies with, you guessed it: guns. So I thought it might be fun to see a gun control action movie, let’s say as an ad for a gun rights group. (Calm down, hippies: this is an intellectual exercise. I don’t even own a gun.)
So here’s the set-up: Some good guy prosecutor puts some bad guy away, and his people are mad. So the bad guys threaten to kill his daughter when she gets out of school, in a few minutes, but because he lives in New York City, where there is a gun ban, and because he’s a law-abiding citizen, he doesn’t own a gun. But because they are criminals, the bad guys just ignore the laws, and they all have guns. And it’s too late to call the cops for backup in time. So our hero rushes to protect his daughter as she walks out of school, but he can’t do much, because he’s unarmed, and the bad guys are all there and armed, so they kill our hero and his daughter. The End. And then the credits roll really fast, followed by the following slogan: “This is your action movie when only the bad guys have guns. Don’t like it? Then support gun rights.” (The whole thing is about one minute long.)
(BTW: The billboard and bus print ads for the new Liam Neeson movie where he’s holding a gun made me think of this, so please blame him and not me if you’re mad. These ads are all over town right now, so I couldn’t exactly miss them.)
Oh, oops: Apparently, even though it was only a minute long, that was still enough time for someone to talk loudly enough to be shot by another moviegoer. Hmm, I guess the issue is more complicated than I thought.
Oh, oops: Apparently, even though it was only a minute long, that was still enough time for someone to talk loudly enough to be shot by another moviegoer. Hmm, I guess the issue is more complicated than I thought.
