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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   At least he has a father. Unlike the crazy that killed kids.
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   Chillbilly said, 4 months ago

   That’s not his father. That’s the head of the NRA.
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   dapperdan61 said, 4 months ago

   Let us not forget 2 prominent Republicans have their own violent action movies coming out. Former Gov Arnold Schwarzannegger in Last Stand opens Friday. Sylvester Stallone has Bullett To The Head opening on Feb 1st. This is clearly not so black & white as the NRA would like to make it appear.
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   ODon said, 4 months ago

   Or the new NRA app for shooting coffins with an assault rifle.
   (Recommended for four year olds and up)
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 4 months ago

   So why’d you bring your kid to the movies, moron? Oh, right… you want media to be a pacifier for your kid so you don’t have to do that “parenting” thing so much.
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   Fourcrows said, 4 months ago

   When I was in high school, I was the outcast (long hair, metal guitarist, only wore black) but I was also an AP honor student. Since I had the opportunity to do a semester of career shasowing, I chose the county coroner. I spent every Friday night and weekend going to crime scenes, nursing homes, fires, morgues, and got to assist with autopsies. Seeing death close up Is what gave me the best perspective on the reality of violence. Seeing what guns actually did to people, understanding the pain involved in how people must have died, dealing with the families of those we had to take away, all of those things and more created a healthy respect for all of the things my peers thought were “cool”. My end project was getting the school board to approve a plan for any student who was charged with possession of drugs, weapons charges, assault, drunk driving or alcohol use, had the option to follow the coroner for community service instead of jail time or highway cleaning project. It was very successful, reducing the number of repeat offenders by 60% in the first two years.
   In short, I think exposing kids to actual death, allowing them to see the difference between reality and entertainment, would do them good. US soldier suicides are at an all time high, perhaps because of the current generation of soldier that has been raised on Call Of Duty is finding the reality is not as much fun as the fantasy.
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   wmconelly said, 4 months ago

   Movies. Those Los Angeles commie liberal pinko egalitarian tree hugging cinemaniacs are to true killers among us.
   (paraphrased from the NRA media handbook)
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   Rottiluv said, 4 months ago

   Well that’s a bit over simplified. If people didn’t want violence in their movies, they wouldn’t go to violent movies and Hollywood would quit making violent movies because they couldn’t make money off of it.
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   lifebyc said, 4 months ago

   @Fourcrows

   That’s one of the most sincere, thoughtful, and moving posts I’ve seen in some time. Well done.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    @Mr. King

    “Django” like “Inglorious Bastards” were cathartic movies. In them horribly suppressed people take control and win against their oppressors. Feel good movies in fact.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    I prefer my violence in movies not in reality. Yes I can discern the difference and differentiate it.
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    Texas Chainsaw 3D opened to number one the first weekend of 2013, taking in $23 million. This does not bode well.
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    DrCanuck said, 4 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, “…cathartic movies…”

    
    No such thing, really (Freud was wrong). Those movies encourage people to IMAGINE they are suppressed and to fight back against authorities that DO NOT suppress them or have any desire to do so (See “Tea Party.”)
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    mdavis4183 said, 4 months ago

    Texas Chainsaw’s Leatherface is based on Ed Gein who was also the inspiration for buffalo Bill and partly for Hannibal Lecter.
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    Urban Space Cowboy said, 4 months ago

    Hollywood likely doesn’t influence mass shootings as much as the NRA would like you to think. A Good Cartoon.
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