Here they are demanding “a plan”:
And here they are demanding “a plan” while shooting people:
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Here they are demanding “a plan”:
And here they are demanding “a plan” while shooting people:
We should emulate our “elder brothers in the faith” and all carry guns. You must have all seen the pictures from Israel where the Jews are all armed to the teeth, school teachers included. Of course they don’t allow the Israeli Palestinians to be armed and we have all seen the pictures of their children. Hey! Has anybody seen pictures of the alleged dead children at Sandy Hook?
What?????
Sandy WM,
That was your third and last excursion – here, at least – into what appears to be anti-semitism.
David, What is anti-Semitic about pointing out the obvious that in Israel the Jews are armed to the teeth whether it is teachers in the classrooms or farmers on their kibbutz?I suppose it would be antisemitic to point out that most of the have beards too. But feel free to criticize me for it is safe to do so and probably politically correct too.
Conflating “Israel” and “the Jews” is quite the red flag, to be honest.
And it wouldn’t be a red flag if I said Israel was populated with Irish. This is an Anglican site and this thread is discussing Hollywood Hypocrites on the subject of gun control which is an American topic which like Israel is a foreign country although for right or wrong they are joined at the hip.
From a New Testament point of view Jesus did advice his followers to sell their shirt and buy a sword which today would be a gun. Now this is a discussion forum in a country that has full and total gun control and is free from gun violence so I think we can discuss the topic without going off the deep end and the only thing that is going to get shot is “shooting the bull” and without a round of beer to boot.
So from the point of view of what Jesus Christ said I am of the opinion that we should all be armed but I am willing to be corrected.
And this 1s not a red flag as I am too old to learn to shoot and with my luck I would probably shoot myself!!?
Just curious David but would you consider Neal Gabor, author of An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Created Hollywood as being anti-Semitic?
I met the personal pilot of one of the richest and well known men in all of Canada, a pilot who is on call, night and day, to fly this fellow anywhere in the world, on his need or fancy, and I asked him;
“What’s he really like?”
“Can’t tell ya.”, he said,
“Non-disclosure agreement!”
But I will ask you a question Terry, he posed.
“How do you think you would feel, and act, if everyone you met, every Statesman, every politician, every interviewer, every media person, absolutely every one, even the Queen of England, told you how brilliant and great you are, and gave you medals to attest to this? Every minute of every day?”
These left leaning Hollywood “idols” are no different, fawned and gushed over in mis-placed adoration of star struck followers, exploitive politians, and like-minded journalists, they think every proclaimation that emanates from their vacuous minds bears the gravitas of a god.
Unfortunately a public that no longers thinks for themselves gobbles their nonsense up like the 30 second delivery of a McDonalds kiddie meal.
“Would you like some doctrine with that?”
I learned somewhere around age 7 that what happened on movies was “make believe,” and what was on the news was “real” (generally). Watching violence on film does not make people more violent any more than watching football on TV makes me more athletic.
In a capitalist market, actors and such have the right to use their gifts and talents to make a living and like everyone else, they have the right to make as much money as possible. And violence on film makes some (not all) a lot of money. And like everyone else, some (and not all) will speak their minds about issues and use their wealth, good looks and status to help make their point, just like many others do who are not in the arts.
Every one of those celebrities that spoke in the video has never been as far as I know in a violent film like those clips that were shown. Most were singers and comedians. I love music and I love to laugh so God bless them. And some are so darn good looking to boot 😉
I thought the second video made an excellent point, Saskatchewan. You must remember, not everyone is growing up firmly anchored in the real reality you were by presumably being immersed in Lutheranism and Farming, and in a family and a community of the same, in the Saskatchewan of 50 or 100 years ago. Millions of 7 year olds today are growing up in isolated, dysfunctional families and are virtually immersed in these products.
Do we know watching violence on film indeed does not make these young people more violent? Seems I remember reading something rather to the contrary where the school shootings are concerned. Also, I know advertisers, not people to waste money on ineffective measures, spend billions of dollars to manipulate people’s shopping habits. There’s also the sheer mass of inane degraded culture that weighs on us all. What I mean to say is, it’s not just that we as a society have so much empty violence in our imagery, it’s that we also, increasingly, have nothing else but popular culture.
There’s also probably something to be said about finance today that makes for conglomerates of big money centre banks and the entertainment industry, behind which is big government, that moves this kind of enterprise out of the realm of its being capitalist. Such that true capitalism and the implication of healthy competition that goes with it, no longer exists. I like to laugh; sing and dance too. But this ad has nothing to do with entertainment except for its use of people in the industry. Instead we have people masquerading as role models and moral leaders, engaging in empty, dangerous rhetoric.
Sandy: none of what you wrote seems to follow from my remark. I am mystified. 😀