Was watching Disney's "The Parent Trap" on Disney last night (yes, I have kids), made sometime in the late 50s or early 60s. Couldn't help but notice that Brian Keith tooled around his ranch in a Jeep with a scabbard mounted to the side and what looked like a Mauser Rifle in the scabbard.
Contrast that to the Toy Story movies Disney puts out now. "Woody the Cowboy's" holster is conspicuously empty.
Fruedian analysis aside (there's probably a Master's thesis in there being a whiny, unarmed cowboy named "Woody" as a character in a popular vehicle of mass culture), I think that the fact that Disney didn't think twice about arming Brian Keith's character in a "family movie" 40 yrs ago is telling about our society and the REALITY of gun ownership in our not so distant past.
Obviously, guns were considered healthy, even necessary. The sight of one didn't even ruffle feathers in a Disney production then but obviously the notion of even a toy gun on a toy cowboy isn't palatable for mass consumption anymore.
Just my thought for the day.
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"Put a rifle in the hands of a Subject, and he immediately becomes a Citizen." -- Jeff Cooper
Contrast that to the Toy Story movies Disney puts out now. "Woody the Cowboy's" holster is conspicuously empty.
Fruedian analysis aside (there's probably a Master's thesis in there being a whiny, unarmed cowboy named "Woody" as a character in a popular vehicle of mass culture), I think that the fact that Disney didn't think twice about arming Brian Keith's character in a "family movie" 40 yrs ago is telling about our society and the REALITY of gun ownership in our not so distant past.
Obviously, guns were considered healthy, even necessary. The sight of one didn't even ruffle feathers in a Disney production then but obviously the notion of even a toy gun on a toy cowboy isn't palatable for mass consumption anymore.
Just my thought for the day.
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"Put a rifle in the hands of a Subject, and he immediately becomes a Citizen." -- Jeff Cooper