Hollywood Pushing Gun Control!
BY Herschel Smith
“Last week, the Biden administration promised gun control groups that it will soon roll out a massive push for limits on firearm purchases and other measures. President Biden reiterated that promise on Sunday. And the television networks aren’t waiting to lay the groundwork for this effort. CBS is in a full-court press for gun control on its evening entertainment television shows. The bad guys are always white supremacists who use machine guns — supposedly AR-15s — to commit mass public shootings. Criminals in Mexico supposedly get machine guns from the United States. A father’s desire to protect his family only leads to tragedy when his daughter gets into the gun safe and uses the weapon in a mass public shooting. And guns in the home pose a danger for children. Gun registration is necessary for solving crime. NBC isn’t to be left out, showing a woman who tried but failed to use a gun to protect herself. Instead, her gun was taken from her and used to kill a police officer. The lesson is that owning a gun will only bring you grief. And that’s just in the first six weeks of the year. Every show gives an inaccurate impression about firearms, thereby helping in this push for gun restrictions. It’s as though these shows were written by Michael Bloomberg’s gun control organizations. Indeed, the networks are working with these groups.”
Oh I don’t think it’s that hard to get machine guns or any other kind of weapon from the U.S. to Mexico. Just ask the U.S. DoJ and the ATF. They’re experts at it. And then just to clean up the mess they’ll prosecute and imprison the very FFL they forced to do the transfers. Wipe, wipe, scrub, scrub, clean as a whistle. No muss, no fuss.
As for TV, does anyone really watch that any more? I don’t watch television. Oh, I have to admit that I might turn on “For a Few Dollars More” just to watch the masterful job Lee Van Cleef does with the character Colonel Douglas Mortimer. It’s just awesome viewing late at night on a Friday after a week of work.
Somehow, I don’t think Hollywood is happy with me feasting my eyes on righteous gun play for two hours and then ignoring all of their other crap.
And somehow I sense that they are desperate. They want to be relevant in a market that is making them increasingly irrelevant. They feel left out. Pity.