Hollywood simultaneously glorifies violence using guns while trashing gun owners.
I am pretty much convinced that most of the existing full automatic weapons in the US are in Hollywood prop departments. On TV and in movies, every common criminal is armed with a full automatic assault rifle, but in reality, since full automatic firearms have been regulated. they have only been used in murders twice. Once by a policeman and the other time by a policeman’s wife who caught him with another woman in his squad car and used his available weapon to kill him.
I suspect that the recent increase in the use of AR and AK style rifles in mass public shootings is largely the result of the glorification of their full automatic cousins in TV and Movies.
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Here are the ACTUAL gun policy positions of the nation’s Chief’s of Police. They do not match the “alternative facts” provided by Mr. Lott.
Click to access IACP%20Firearms%20Position%20Paper_2018%20(1).pdf
Blaming Hollywood or Video games is a cop-out for those emotionally unable to face the simple truth. More guns means more gun violence. Fewer guns means less gun violence. We share all the same movies, TV shows and video games with dozens of other countries but we stand alone in terms of gun violence – a tragic class by ourselves. The evidence is clear – our problem with gun violence is clearly because we have too many, too powerful and too easy to get guns.
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Your link does not work. perhaps an edit will fix it.
In any case, your link is to International Chiefs of Police. I am only interested in what police in the US think.
Or try this one
https://crimeresearch.org/2016/07/new-survey-of-chiefs-of-police-and-sheriffs-in-the-united-states-shows-strong-support-for-concealed-carry-and-gun-ownership/
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Only interested in opinion that agree with yours?
You do know how lame that sounds, right?
Here is the link again . . .
Click to access IACP%20Firearms%20Position%20Paper_2018%20(1).pdf
This is a highly respected professional organization based in the United States whose carefully considered official positions should – for the objective reader – carry some weight. At the very least their positions refute the claim that law enforcement is solidly behind the NRA’s extremist positions.
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For some reason the “.pdf” at the end of the link is being dropped by the software. Cut and paste the whole thing to get to the position paper in question.
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So, we have dueling Command officer organizations.
The National Assn provides a survey of its members opinions, does the International Assn? If not, we have no idea what degree of support it has among its members
Click to access NACOP-surveyresults-2016.pdf
And of course, there is the opinion of the rank and file officers to consider
Click to access p1_gunsurveysummary_2013.pdf
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Here is the key fact from your cite . . .
“More than 15,000 officers completed the survey, which was promoted
by PoliceOne exclusively to its 400,000 registered members, comprised of verified law
enforcement professionals.”
Anytime you are dealing with emotional issues like gun control any findings based on self-selected respondents is not reliable. We all know how emotional gun enthusiasts are about this issue. This is a self-selected group of people with the strongest feelings. And even then, many “leftist” proposals poll well.
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True, self selection can be a problem in polls but then that was only for the Police One Survey
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The IAOCP did not provide any methodology at all.
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Then again
https://www.psypost.org/2019/09/people-with-lower-emotional-intelligence-are-more-likely-to-hold-right-wing-views-study-finds-54369
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Emotional Intelligence?
You mean like Jumbo Shrimp and Civil War?
Of course people who make their choices based on reason and fact tend to be conservative (throw in tolerance and you get libertarian) and people who are ruled by emotion tend to be liberal.
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“Once by a policeman and the other time by a policeman’s wife who caught him with another woman in his squad car and used his available weapon to kill him.”
Why I don’t keep guns.
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RE: “Why I don’t keep guns.”
Is it the police, the guns, or policemen’s wives which concern you?
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The “A Team” was my inspiration… all those rounds fires, no hits, no runs, and no one left on base.
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Funny thing about US films. We give R or even PG -13 ratings to some of the most sadistically violence on the screen.
But flash one nipple in a love story and instant R or NC-17.
We love violence in movies. Always have.
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Murder is the work of GOD!
Nipples (only female apparently) are Satan’s doorway.
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It is different now.
When John Wayne killed a bad guy, it was always with some degree of regret or at least, hesitation.
Now, dozens of unnamed extras are mowed down in a matter of minutes, and no one seems to know or care who they were or if they had families.
And again, every thug has a machine gun.
Conflict and violence have been a part of entertainment since Shakespeare, but it has never been so impersonal and causal before.
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Don’t forget Richard Widmark kicking a disabled woman in a wheelchair down the stairs in “Kiss of Death”. 1947. Or all the gangster movies from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.
Or Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns with no shortage of bodies and realistic blood letting. Or his later Dirty Harry flicks.
It is possible that special effects are making things look worse. But in the context of the times, violence was pretty real to those viewers.
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I’d go to the movie ZULU as a prime example of “others” dying by the truck load.
Somehow those “savages” just didn’t seem human…
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Which “savages”? The Brits, the Boers or the Zulu warriors?
Colonial Africa was a tough place to be African.
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At the end of the battle, the Michael Caine character tells you exactly who were the savages.
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Art imitates life.
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