In an attempt to help curb gun violence

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You're going to have to go back farther than those.

Phil Donahue?? There is plenty of them.
But you do get my point, right?

What?
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Never mind, then.

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How do you explain all the other countries in the world where they watch the same movies and they don’t have anywhere near the gun violence problem America has?

Could we start with the actors in the movies with so much gun violence to either not lecture the country about gun violence or not participate in those movies? They can either put up or shut up, they can talk the talk pretty good, now it's time to walk the walk.

I'm not trying to. The question was whether we should not show gun violence in movies in an effort to curb gun violence in AMERICA. I suggested that maybe the actors in those movies with the gun violence should STFU until they stop making the movies that promote the violence they are so adamantly against. You know, stop with their double standard way of thinking.

John Wayne and Charlton Heston should have stfu?

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How do you explain all the other countries in the world where they watch the same movies and they don’t have anywhere near the gun violence problem America has?

I'm not trying to. The question was whether we should not show gun violence in movies in an effort to curb gun violence in AMERICA. I suggested that maybe the actors in those movies with the gun violence should STFU until they stop making the movies that promote the violence they are so adamantly against. You know, stop with their double standard way of thinking.

John Wayne and Charlton Heston should have stfu?

Charles "From my cold, dead hands" Heston??

sorry, CHARLTON, not Charles....

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There are NRA websites. They “ buy “ politicians. The politicians preach the very same “ protect yourself” theory. Guns are glorified. It’s all there . There are efforts to make it too easy to get guns.
You dont have to believe it if it upsets you.
But it’s true.

So you aren't hearing/seeing ads from the gun manufacturers and the NRA all over the place?
Yes, the gun people "buy" politicians. Same as Monsanto does. Same as the pharmaceutical companies do. Same as every other special interest group in the whole country.

BTW, my family thinks I am very important. Why should I not have the right and the ability to defend myself, the same as all the celebrities do? Or is self-protection reserved for certain, special people only?

Haha.
I’m so glad your family wants you to protect yourself
Could you Be anymore self involved?

For God's sake , just stop. Ask your family how they would feel if you were murdered by some asshat. You can believe giving them what they want will protect you, but that's wishful thinking.

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I'm not trying to. The question was whether we should not show gun violence in movies in an effort to curb gun violence in AMERICA. I suggested that maybe the actors in those movies with the gun violence should STFU until they stop making the movies that promote the violence they are so adamantly against. You know, stop with their double standard way of thinking.

John Wayne and Charlton Heston should have stfu?

Charles "From my cold, dead hands" Heston??

sorry, CHARLTON, not Charles....

B or C minus actors, the both of them.

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So you aren't hearing/seeing ads from the gun manufacturers and the NRA all over the place?
Yes, the gun people "buy" politicians. Same as Monsanto does. Same as the pharmaceutical companies do. Same as every other special interest group in the whole country.

BTW, my family thinks I am very important. Why should I not have the right and the ability to defend myself, the same as all the celebrities do? Or is self-protection reserved for certain, special people only?

Haha.
I’m so glad your family wants you to protect yourself
Could you Be anymore self involved?

For God's sake , just stop. Ask your family how they would feel if you were murdered by some asshat. You can believe giving them what they want will protect you, but that's wishful thinking.

Okiedokie
We just don’t think that way. We don’t see bad guys around every corner and we don’t buy guns” for protection “.
Thank goodness.

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And obviously that’s not a factor for increase gun violence anywhere, so why would it be in America? Are Americans dumber that they can’t distinguish between fiction and reality than people from other countries?
If you want to actually curb gun violence in America then look at the factors that the rest of the world doesn’t share, not at the one it does.

How do you explain all the other countries in the world where they watch the same movies and they don’t have anywhere near the gun violence problem America has?

Could we start with the actors in the movies with so much gun violence to either not lecture the country about gun violence or not participate in those movies? They can either put up or shut up, they can talk the talk pretty good, now it's time to walk the walk.

I'm not trying to. The question was whether we should not show gun violence in movies in an effort to curb gun violence in AMERICA. I suggested that maybe the actors in those movies with the gun violence should STFU until they stop making the movies that promote the violence they are so adamantly against. You know, stop with their double standard way of thinking.

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Exactly.

And obviously that’s not a factor for increase gun violence anywhere, so why would it be in America? Are Americans dumber that they can’t distinguish between fiction and reality than people from other countries?
If you want to actually curb gun violence in America then look at the factors that the rest of the world doesn’t share, not at the one it does.

How do you explain all the other countries in the world where they watch the same movies and they don’t have anywhere near the gun violence problem America has?

I'm not trying to. The question was whether we should not show gun violence in movies in an effort to curb gun violence in AMERICA. I suggested that maybe the actors in those movies with the gun violence should STFU until they stop making the movies that promote the violence they are so adamantly against. You know, stop with their double standard way of thinking.

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John Wayne and Charlton Heston should have stfu?

Charles "From my cold, dead hands" Heston??

sorry, CHARLTON, not Charles....

B or C minus actors, the both of them.

Do I even dare admit that I don't believe I've ever seen a movie with either of them? Unless one of their movies was one I had to watch in a class I took in college... that would be the only way I've seen either in a movie.

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And obviously that’s not a factor for increase gun violence anywhere, so why would it be in America? Are Americans dumber that they can’t distinguish between fiction and reality than people from other countries?
If you want to actually curb gun violence in America then look at the factors that the rest of the world doesn’t share, not at the one it does.

How do you explain all the other countries in the world where they watch the same movies and they don’t have anywhere near the gun violence problem America has?

I'm not trying to. The question was whether we should not show gun violence in movies in an effort to curb gun violence in AMERICA. I suggested that maybe the actors in those movies with the gun violence should STFU until they stop making the movies that promote the violence they are so adamantly against. You know, stop with their double standard way of thinking.

And you can't wrap your pretty little head around a valid point, either!

I don't give a rat's tail if they make the movies or not, and most Americans really can tell the difference between real and a movie. HOWEVER, those actors who want to get in front of a microphone and tell ME how to live while they get rich by pretending to do what they tell ME and the rest of America NOT to do is the kind of bullshit I can do without. And I have every right to say that they are full of it and that they are hypocrites. When they can do what they preach, I might give them a few minutes of my time... until then, IDGAF.

I think the real problem is the SSRI's that the psychiatrists put teens on. Movies don't have the first thing to do with pharmaceuticals. So, I guess we agree on that point.