30 Days

[TwitchALot]

I'm not sure if anyone here has heard of the show, but a new episode will be showing on FX next week, Tuesday, July 1st. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up. Looks kind of interesting:

Installment Five
PARTICIPANT - Pia Lalli, 39
RESIDES - Brockton, MA
OCCUPATION - Aerobics Instructor
AIRDATE - Tuesday, July 1, 2008

After Pia learned that her friend had been killed by a schizophrenic man wielding a gun in 1996, she became a gun control advocate who has fought to pass stricter gun laws in the U.S. Pia believes that the world would be free from gun violence only by prohibiting the sale of guns to anyone outside of law enforcement and armed services.

For 30 Days, Pia will live in the heart of gun culture in the rural town of Leesburg, Ohio with gun enthusiast Ken Ekermeyer, 39, and his 15-year-old son Zach. Ken is an avid gun collector and rarely leaves home without his gun strapped to his side. Ken believes carrying a gun is his right guaranteed to every American by the Second Amendment. As Pia struggles to understand the Ekermeyer's beliefs and somewhat isolated way of life, she will work at a local gun store and experience what it is like to carry a gun in public, learn to handle and fire weapons and will introduce Ken to other gun control activists who have lost loved ones to gun violence.

 

[CDignition]

Looks like a little entertainment, I wonder what kind of bias the show has..I saw the one with the animal rights wackos, and they just show you(him) what they want you to see.. its all brainwashing.

 

[RedLion]

saw the commercials for that and I really want to see it, although I think it will have some spin on it ( cause the commercial makes the son look like a creeper), but I am still interested.

 

[HK G3]

30 Days traditionally takes the side of whatever the "other" culture is, and not the person being immersed.

If it follows this precedent, it should be pretty pro 2A. But either way, you're going to have an anti espousing her views, and a pro RKBA family defending their way of life, so at "worst", it'll just be balanced.

I thought the animal rights one was good, it exposed some of the problems with factory farming, and I personally felt that was a very strong argument for hunting, seeing as the hunter was distressed by the unnecessary abuse that goes on, but at the end said that he was still going to hunt. Most of the animal rights people were just absolutely bat-poo crazy though, so it was hard to stomach.

 

[Thernlund]

30 Days traditionally takes the side of whatever the "other" culture is, and not the person being immersed.

If it follows this precedent, it should be pretty pro 2A.

I agree. I've watched the show a great deal and in my experience this is very true.


-T.

 

[lysander]

I find that this show does a great job of exposing participants to the other side of the coin.

I have enjoyed every episode and look forward to this one.

 

[lions]

If it follows this precedent, it should be pretty pro 2A.

I agree, it should, but I don't think it will. Here is why.

and will introduce Ken to other gun control activists who have lost loved ones to gun violence.

If it really follows precedent Ken would introduce her to fellow gun enthusiasts who have saved either their life or someone else's. It should be her immersed in the pro RKBA culture but instead it sounds like they are going to immerse Ken in the anti gun culture.

Its a very interesting show but there always seems to be a liberal spin. I plan on watching but I wouldn't be surprised if the show leans more towards anti gun.

 

[Linda]

The crew of 30 Days brought Pia to a picnic that Buckeye Firearms held last Sept. Did a couple hours of film footage. They also took her squirrel hunting with one of our leaders. They didn't get any because the film crew was too noisy. We have no idea if any of the film footage will be shown, but looking forward to watching the show Tuesday night @ 10:00PM, FX channel.

Yes, Pia is the type who would get on your last nerve.

 

[mnrivrat]

Most of the time with shows like this the important part ends up on the cutting room floor - just to tempting for the media bias to spin these things into Bubba with a gun, and the urban saint who was forced to indure them for 30 days.

Intertaining? -perhaps , but don't expect an unbiased or pro-gun message.