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not completely inaccurate. but why do people that champion the 2nd amendment always seem not to have a problem with attacking the 1st amendment? and there are background checks for movies – it is called the rating system, problematic as it may be is still a restriction on free speech – i.e., censorship. granted, it seems ratings are more interested in censoring sex than violence.
The guy has a gun in his pocket. He should not be allowed in. And the notion of background-checks on movie-goers is classical McCoy: coo-coo for coco-pops!
When I was a boy, movies were usually about cowboys shooting each other and/or Native Americans, or war movies about the great American victory in WWII, or gangster movies. And most boys not raised in cities had guns for the varmits.
But we didn’t have mass shootings in schools (just universities). Today, most movies are less violent than the ones I watched as a small boy, but the violent ones are more graphic. Maybe that’s the difference? Not likely, but the NRA likes that explanation. For one possible explanation of the current phenomenon of frequent mass shootings, read Stand on Zanzibar.
The problem with the Rating System is ‘R’ rated Moives allow folks under 17 to see the Movie with an Adult, here inlies the problem, they see the Gun Violence and act it out in real life as they do not undersand the Actors on the Screen do not die in real life.
Actually, “Saving Private Ryan” had clips at the start that showed what combat is really like, not the phony “movie violence”, and it affected people greatly. It is the PHONY violence of a “Commando”, or “Rooster Cogburn” that distorts peoples’ ideas about violence.. They don’t realize the real thing is much more grotesque than on film . BTW, cars don’t burst into flame in every accident, and high explosive artillery rounds do NOT go up in gasoline flames, they throw out shrapnel that shreds cars, cats, homes and humans, into very, very , small pieces.
Actually no. They do kill them most of the time but the peices unless you are at the epicenter of the blast are usually good sized. Rather squisy though.
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tranquil-d
said, 4 months ago
not completely inaccurate. but why do people that champion the 2nd amendment always seem not to have a problem with attacking the 1st amendment? and there are background checks for movies – it is called the rating system, problematic as it may be is still a restriction on free speech – i.e., censorship. granted, it seems ratings are more interested in censoring sex than violence.
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
The guy has a gun in his pocket. He should not be allowed in. And the notion of background-checks on movie-goers is classical McCoy: coo-coo for coco-pops!
Michael wme said, 4 months ago
When I was a boy, movies were usually about cowboys shooting each other and/or Native Americans, or war movies about the great American victory in WWII, or gangster movies. And most boys not raised in cities had guns for the varmits.
But we didn’t have mass shootings in schools (just universities).
Today, most movies are less violent than the ones I watched as a small boy, but the violent ones are more graphic. Maybe that’s the difference? Not likely, but the NRA likes that explanation.
For one possible explanation of the current phenomenon of frequent mass shootings, read Stand on Zanzibar.
wmconelly said, 4 months ago
‘Cuse me, do pictures of bullets leave the barrel with the same lethal force as actual bullets? Didn’t think so.
Tigger
said, 4 months ago
@tranquil-d
The problem with the Rating System is ‘R’ rated Moives allow folks under 17 to see the Movie with an Adult, here inlies the problem, they see the Gun Violence and act it out in real life as they do not undersand the Actors on the Screen do not die in real life.
Tigger
said, 4 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
Actually had The Theater had an alarm on the Emergency Exit Doors when opened and left propped open then that Tragedy never would have occurred.
Tigger
said, 4 months ago
@Michael wme
Have you seen ‘Pulp Fiction’? Pukp Fiction is much more violent thna the Westerns you watched as a child
dtroutma
said, 4 months ago
Actually, “Saving Private Ryan” had clips at the start that showed what combat is really like, not the phony “movie violence”, and it affected people greatly. It is the PHONY violence of a “Commando”, or “Rooster Cogburn” that distorts peoples’ ideas about violence.. They don’t realize the real thing is much more grotesque than on film . BTW, cars don’t burst into flame in every accident, and high explosive artillery rounds do NOT go up in gasoline flames, they throw out shrapnel that shreds cars, cats, homes and humans, into very, very , small pieces.
Radish
said, 4 months ago
Movies are written for thirteen year old boys.
swr said, 4 months ago
@tranquil-d
We are not attacking it. We embrace it by employing free speech to show what a foolish concept gun control is via reducto ad absurbim
swr said, 4 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
Your the Cheif bull-goose coo-coo.
swr said, 4 months ago
@wmconelly
Inane statement
swr said, 4 months ago
@dtroutma
Actually no. They do kill them most of the time but the peices unless you are at the epicenter of the blast are usually good sized. Rather squisy though.
swr said, 4 months ago
@Radish
Actually 17 to one anaylisi I read.