(October 31, 2020 at 10:33 pm)Sal Wrote: I agree with onlinebiker on this. It's folly to think that legalising yourself to stricter gun control, would somehow magically affect actual "gun control" in equal measure.
I don't have a good impromptu solution, nor do I think there is one, when there are so bloody many of them around already in circulation. Any "gun control" measure has to take this prevalence in serious account, and the main hurdle as an outside observer, is the fetishism of guns.
Bold mine - That's sort of where my head was at when I asked about keeping guns out of the movies/TV. Boru said he likes a good shoot 'em up show. I'm not a big fan of action/adventure movies but my husband is. There are times I have to put on headphones, or leave the room, to drown out the sound of explosions and hundreds of gunshots. No one shoots at their target one time...no, they scatter and spray bullets all over the place and often what's shown is a body jumping around as it's hit over and over again...I have to think that's part of the fetishism.
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