Surprise! Hollywood Producer Targets NRA

I think Mr Weinstein and others like him probably justify the violence and gunplay in their movies with the response that it isn't real. It's fantasy. No one is actually shot, no one seriously injured, no one killed, etc. SO, harmless, right?

What boggles my mind, and has for some time is the amount of outright hate and lies the anti gun people constantly throw out, most aimed at the NRA.

I can understand disagreement, even dislike, but its not just that, it is outright "hanging's too good for 'em, they should be tortured to death, first!" kind of hate.

College professors, media moguls, sometimes even politicians spewing real venom, and given a pass, or worse, a pat on the back from reporters all over the country.

As long as its about guns. If its about one of their personal sacred cows, the scream long and loud and want the offender nailed to a wall. Such kind, tolerant people.....
 
I can understand disagreement, even dislike, but its not just that, it is outright "hanging's too good for 'em, they should be tortured to death, first!" kind of hate.
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That's what got me about the guilt and shame rhetoric when the UBC bill failed. At one point, I read an editorial that said the blood of the children of Sandy Hook was on the hands of those of us who opposed it.

Good heavens. What right do they have to expect a civil discussion when they come out of the gate with sentiments like that?
 
What right do they have to expect a civil discussion when they come out of the gate with sentiments like that?
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They don't expect a civil discussion. They don't want a civil discussion. They want us to die, in agony as they feel we are personally responsible for every mis use and criminal abuse of a firearm. The kinder ones would allow us to live, I think, as long as we renounced not only our own gun ownership, but everyone else's as well.

The most radical of them make the kind of public statements that, if the subject was something other than guns, would get them sued, or prosecuted. Yet they get away with it, constantly.

As far as I know, and I've been involved in the situation for more than half a century now, while people in the NRA sometimes say things they shouldn't, they are doing so as individuals, not NRA spokesmen. The NRA has never advocated breaking any law, never made personal attacks on anyone, or represented any group in any way other than honestly.

Why does the other side heap such hatred on the NRA? Is it just because they are the visible flagship of the pro gun viewpoint? Or is there something else, perhaps, darker, at work?
 
Maybe Weinstein can get Bloomberg to bankroll his project. Maybe Bloomberg to even star in the movie along with Streep.

Will be interesting to see what the total cost of the movie will be versus the total $'s in revenue for the gun industry after it comes out.

Maybe the NRA along with ammo and gun manufacturer's need to draft
a 'letter of appreciation' to Weinstein and movie supporters for increased membership/sales ready ahead of time.
 
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Hollywood hipsters....

It's "hip" in Hollywood to be "anti-gun" or anti-2A(see the huge wave post-Sandy Hook in 2012) but many actors & film industry professionals own guns, get CCW licenses or go target shooting/skeet shooting. :confused:

The 2000s era film The Runaway Jury is a great example. The plot is based on writer John Grisham's novel. But in the book, big tobacco companies are the evil baddies. The major US tobacco firms settled all the civil actions & were not as big of a social issue so Hollywood & the production company/studio of The Runaway Jury switched the content to the US gun industry & firearms. :rolleyes:
The problem there was that by the time the feature film was released, many state governments & local elected leaders passed or were on track to get new state laws/statues that prevented gun makers/companies from civil actions or wrongful death actions.
So the dramatic content & story of The Runaway Jury is in fact completely unrealistic & implausible in many areas of the US.
The feature film was a turkey at the US box office & didn't really change any minds about gun rights or firearm ownership.
 
I liked the clip, and the article. We need more of this. For decades, the other side has been tossing out their statistics without challenge and with constant unquestioning repetition from all the media outlets.

Good to see someone actually calling one of them to task on it!
 
ironically, howard stern is one of elitists that have a NYC ccw permit yet refuses to take a stand for the same right being extended to the working man.
 
Howard Stern is now supposed to represent the everyman? The guy who had a radio show that more often than not had spank offs and bikini mud wrestling contests for plastic surgery?

And I had to Google Merly Streep. She ain't no Emma Stone, that's for sure.

I hope this gets made, he sinks a bunch of money into it, and we can give it the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment in the Q one night via internet download.
 
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I hope this gets made, he sinks a bunch of money into it, and we can give it the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment in the Q one night via internet download.
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I hope Tom Servo is still paying attention to this thread, and that he can convince Crow and Mike or Joel to come out of retirement for this... ;)
 
I hope Tom Servo is still paying attention to this thread, and that he can convince Crow and Mike or Joel to come out of retirement for this...
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Nope. Same reason they never touched Bowling for Columbine.

Let them run their movie. Let a few of their elitist friends fawn over how sensitive and soul-searching it is. They'll make some money, and they'll get a few awards.

In the meantime, NRA enrollment will skyrocket, and so will gun sales. Weinstein gets to be smug, but he's not going to change anyone's mind on the issue.

Then he can go back to making Disembowler: the Bloodening Part XI or whatever he does when he's not feeling all hypocritical.
 
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