If so many people are anti gun, why are most of the top shows on tv gun related?

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it's called hypocracy

to a lot of people, guns are an evil mystery item.

They want to get close to them, without actually ever touching one or being around somebody with one.

You know what I mean?

I don't know how else to say it.

thats a great question. people at work can not wait for the next 24 to come on the air but let them know I have a CCw and they freak out ??

I don't see many shows portraying responsible private ownership of firearms. I mostly see guns in the hands of cops and criminals. Those types of portrayals only reinforce gun control ideas.

One notable exceptions I've seen to this is on Desperate Housewives. Yes, there are plenty of guns in the hands of cops and criminals, but one of the main characters is Bree VanDeCamp/Hodge. She is a gun enthusiast and at one point uses one of her pistols to chase off a man who broke into her house and was attacking her daughter. Good stuff.

I know some of you will go nuts over this one, but I also like how guns are treated on Mythbusters. Instead of vile killing machines, they're treated as fun and interesting. Feel free to flame away about how they don't do things perfectly

why are all the cop and fbi and drama shows that revolve around guns, people getting shot, and people doing the shooting so popular among americans

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How many of those shows put firearms in a good light?

They show people doing bad things with guns and the police coming in to punish the wicked and protect the innocent

And they make people believe in meat bullets

The way I see it, on TV, there's a pretty clear reason for why a character has a gun. Another thing to note, is that guns are only shown when they're used, pretty much.

I don't think that most people are anti-gun, I just think that they're not that pro-gun.

I don't see many shows portraying responsible private ownership of firearms. I mostly see guns in the hands of cops and criminals. Those types of portrayals only reinforce gun control ideas.

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Exactly.

I would take a different view,
These shows you are thinking about are only pro-gun in terms of Law enforcement having them. (ie "the state")
If citizens have guns....well this leads to street crime. (which is just NOT supported by ANY studies...ANYWHERE (even Govt studies).

You do not see responsible citizens acting responsible with firearms.

And You will never see a life or death crime that was stopped by a responsible LICENSED conceal carry owner before the police where on the scene.

Another thing to note, is that guns are only shown when they're used, pretty much.

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I think that probably has more to do with the fact that an unused gun is fairly boring. I don't know that I'd watch a show where someone sits down and properly cleans their gun for five minutes. I'd rather watch a gunfight on TV.

Once again, I'd like to be an evangelist for Desperate Housewives as the exception. The aforementioned Bree has guns come up quite often in her storyline and they are only rarely used.

A person who is fascinated with guns is not necessarily pro-gun.

As another example, consider the fact that (virtually) no one is "pro-murder." Yet millions of Americans love to watch murder scenes in movies.

Mental masturbation.

Childish frothiness over fantasy gunplay has nothing to do with the adult sobriety of RKBA.

It may be irritating, but I don't think it's really hypocritical. Drama largely depends upon depicting situations that audience members might find unpleasant or dangerous in real life. Or, to make an analogy, is it hypocritical to believe in strictly enforced speed limits but still be a motorsports enthusiast?

I think that probably has more to do with the fact that an unused gun is fairly boring. I don't know that I'd watch a show where someone sits down and properly cleans their gun for five minutes. I'd rather watch a gunfight on TV.

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I think it'd be pretty cool, to show someone who carries a gun, and not necessarily use it. It'd drive people nuts.

Since the advent of television, three types of evening dramas have been popular: series involving doctors, series involving lawyers, and series involving cops.

Not much has changed, except for the emphasis on the "evil" gun.

On a Firefly board I encountered the same thing. Many loved the show and the characters but when pushed supported gun control and a raft of other statist non-sense.

The confusiosity was soul shredding.

If so many people are anti gun, why are most of the top shows on tv gun related???

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For the same reason Romans found gladiators killing each other interesting.

Pilgrim

I second the praise for desperate housewives. That show is absolutely bad-capital S!

There was a scene in which this creepy (malpracticing) phramacist shows up at her house after she breaks up with him and tries to serenade her with a loudspeaker-equipped van in the middle of dinner. He had been essentially stalking her for days despite repeated warnings to stay away.

She goes upstairs, pulls out a long case from under the bed, removes a shotgun, and tells him to leave. He tells her that he won't leave unless she comes back to him....

BLAM!

The vast majority of entertainment TV shows only show LEOs, Government agents and Criminals as using firearms. This is expected since it is fine for LEOS, and the government to own firearms but not the great unwashed masses. On the other hand, civilian gun owners are shown as crazy extremist and/or cold blooded killers. Most shows preach an anti gun message to the masses, for example the CSI series. I have yet to see a show that cast civilian RKBA in a positive light.

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to make an analogy, is it hypocritical to believe in strictly enforced speed limits but still be a motorsports enthusiast?

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Eh, that's a sloppy strawman, IMO.
All the high-speed driving in motorsports are carefully controlled and contained events.
It's not like NASCAR has the drivers tearing around public streets.
It's not same thing at all.

If you can find a giant car-chase fan who won't push his car more than 5-over, then you'd have an analogy.

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I have yet to see a show that cast civilian RKBA in a positive light.

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How's that Jerico show doing?
I really don't watch TV anymore, but I've seen the show on occasion while visiting.
The main characters always seemed to be armed, as were the villains.

to a lot of people, guns are an evil mystery item.

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This is it. Anybody that does anything on t.v. is an "expert". When a common dumb southern redneck has a gun...that's dangerous.

The only guns on t.v. are being fired at humans and when hit, they're flying all over the place and what not.

People are a lot more willing to be scared sh!*less of something rather than trying to learn something about it.

I can go along with firearms being a mystery.

Add -if the TV shows ( allow me to include Movies), brainwash the masses that only Police and Military should have guns, the mystery becomes acceptance of an ideaology and State of mind.

Pretty slick if one thinks about it.
Monie$ are made instilling the ideology of the State.

Eh, that's a sloppy strawman, IMO.
All the high-speed driving in motorsports are carefully controlled and contained events.
It's not like NASCAR has the drivers tearing around public streets.
It's not same thing at all.

If you can find a giant car-chase fan who won't push his car more than 5-over, then you'd have an analogy.

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Fair enough. I retract my analogy and substitute yours. The point remains the same. Novel readers, TV watchers, and moviegoers enjoy exciting action. No one would apply this standard (degree of conscious political commitment) to fistfights, car chases, or space battles. As believers in the Constitution and RKBA advocates, we sometimes see the fictional representation of situations involving firearms in a different light than your average non-gunowning entertainment consumer, but that does not amount to hypocrisy on their part.

Here's why:

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Col. Jeff Cooper

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Who wants to watch an hour or two of fleeing?

Aliens 3 is a great example of this. They chose to follow the shoot-em-up story in Aliens (2) with a "non-gun" story, so they set it in a prision (no guns..get it?). Basically the characters ran and hid for 110 minutes. And no one came to the box office.