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What's wrong with the NRA?
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Hey:
Saw this last night. Sometimes a dose of truth is the hardest thing to swallow, just because it makes you miserable to know you live in a country run by a blithering moron and populated partly by racist, gun-toting maniacs. But God Bless America, right?
Every person in America should see this film.
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No, we shouldn’t. Saying this film is a good gauge of American gun owners/users is like saying those people who died from playing games for days on end is a good representation of all gamers.Saw this last night. Sometimes a dose of truth is the hardest thing to swallow, just because it makes you miserable to know you live in a country run by a blithering moron and populated partly by racist, gun-toting maniacs. But God Bless America, right?
Every person in America should see this film.
Just Like Honey
How about this for starters. I particularly enjoyed this touching description of an anti-gun rally: The state's largest gun-grabbing group will hold its yearly group-grope on the Federal Plaza on Monday. Certainly all the antigun politicians will be there tripping all over each other to see who will portray themselves as being the most antigun. Intermixed with all the damning statements about the NRA (most of the folks in the crowd can't even spell NRA) will be silly awards for silly poems and a sappy story from some mom whose honor student kid was gunned down at 3 a.m. on his way home from the library to choir practice.Originally posted by Jimmy Carter
What's wrong with the NRA?
"Of course, we'll hear how the little angel wanted to be a doctor. Question, how come all these dead kids wanted to be doctors? Obviously, wanting to be a doctor is the problem, not guns."
I'm sure if one of their kids was shot in the head by accident they would have the same message.
I saw the movie last night and was impressed. Let's get some facts straight (I love doing lists):
1. The movie never, ever, ever says that there is something wrong with owning guns. Claiming otherwise is like saying The Wizard of Oz is a movie about why people shouldn't live on farms.
2. The main idea of the movie is that Americans are living in an artificial climate of fear and are responding with undue violence (yes, there is such a thing as violence that is due).
3. The most sickening facts presented are true and easily verifiable - by Master, Charleton Heston, or anybody else. As always, you are free to interpret those facts any way you wish in light of the whole documentary and your personal knowledge of the matter. The facts remain, whatever your biases.
4. It's not a sin to enjoy media created by persons of an opposing politcal bend. I read the National Review, William F. Buckley, and others, and you know what? - I do it with an open mind. If you sit there incredulously, ready with an answer to everything you see as liberal manipulation or conservative proselytizing, you will close the door to many useful facts that you could otherwise have made use of. The smartest people tend to entertain a variety of opinions and choose wisely.
5. Michael Moore is a showman, but he is a popular filmmaker exploring a topic full of drama and controversy. Can we get past our political quibbles and entertain thoughts outside our partisan boxes once in a while? Watch this movie, then go home and watch your supposedly "liberal" news media. You may notice things you just let pass unnoticed previously.
6. The movie is funny and touching. If you pay money to see Jackass, but condemn this one out of the gate, you have screwy priorities, say I.
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Originally Posted by Drewbacca
The night after I saw the movie, the local news did a scare story on people catching fire at gas stations. They claimed it was probably underreported, and there very well be many more cases than we think. As if the police and press wouldn't find out if someone caught on fire at a gas station.
Maybe I'll start watching the news more.
or bust.
Michael Moore rules. And you gun guys - you're insane. Seriously. You don't need a fucking gun. Go learn Kung Fu like a real man.
-Kyo
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I saw it this past weekend, and overall I'd say it was pretty good. I don't understand why any discussion of this film always revolves around the gun issue, since it's really only one of many issues that it covers, and not necessarily the main one.
The way I see it, the main issue is the the role that fear and consumption play in american culture, and how that leads to social problems, especially violence.
The only real complaint that I have is the way the director plays to the camera at a couple of points, like when he continues talking to dick clark when he's speeding away in a van, or when he tries to lay a guilt trip on heston when he's already out of earshot. That's a pretty minor problem though.
You don't understand! They catch fire . . . at gas stations! It not only happens more than you think, it just may happen more than those who think they know think!
Please exercise caution! Please!
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