Robert Hairless
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Hypocrisy is one of many problems I see in California's ambivalent attitudes towards guns, but it is the most easily remedied of all those problems.
At the root of this problem is that California allows and even encourages the production of films and other media, including audio recordings, that glorify guns and make them attractive to our children. Then, after having created a child's attraction to guns, California shifts its moral ground and tries to deny guns to the adults that once were those very same children. The state's behavior on this subject is hypocritical and creates unnecessary frustration.
My proposal to Gov. Schwarzenegger is simply that he use his executive powers to ban the creation, production, and distribution of all media that refer to all firearms in any way in the state of California.
It might be argued that there is positive value in films and recordings that show guns in an unfavorable light, but such an argument assumes that anyone can predict the reactions of all children, and that argument is obviously absurd.
It also could be argued that such an executive order would violate the Constitutional right of free speech protected by the First Amendment, but that argument fails because it assumes that Freedom of Speech is an individual right when everyone knows that it is a collective right like all others in the Bill of Rights.
Gov. Schwarzenegger will understand better than ordinary citizens that although the First Amendment protects the right of everyone in the United States to express themselves it does not protect the right of any individual citizen to express himself or herself. So when everyone in the country says exactly the same thing at the same moment, their right to do so is guaranteed by the First Amendment. But if even one person does not participate in that uniform chorus nobody else has the right to speak.
Laymen are often confused about that point but Gov. Schwarzenegger should understand it or, if he needs explanation, can contact Paul Helmke of The Brady Campaign or California's own Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, for assistance.
Please do not get bogged down in my explanation of these fine Constitutional points. Consider writing or e-mailing Gov. Schwarzenegger today to ask him to issue an immediate executive order banning the production of films and other media, including audio recordings, that glorify guns and make them attractive to our children. That order should include immediate confiscation of such destructive media produced in the past. We look to him to protect us from the illegal media with which California has been flooding our nation for nearly a century.
I am, by the way, absolutely serious. Here is Gov. Schwarzenegger's e-mail address: http://www.capwiz.com/politicsol/mail/?id=141270&type=GV&state=CA. I have no doubt that he would be happy to hear from everyone in the country because the corrosive media produced in California corrupts the entire United States.
At the root of this problem is that California allows and even encourages the production of films and other media, including audio recordings, that glorify guns and make them attractive to our children. Then, after having created a child's attraction to guns, California shifts its moral ground and tries to deny guns to the adults that once were those very same children. The state's behavior on this subject is hypocritical and creates unnecessary frustration.
My proposal to Gov. Schwarzenegger is simply that he use his executive powers to ban the creation, production, and distribution of all media that refer to all firearms in any way in the state of California.
It might be argued that there is positive value in films and recordings that show guns in an unfavorable light, but such an argument assumes that anyone can predict the reactions of all children, and that argument is obviously absurd.
It also could be argued that such an executive order would violate the Constitutional right of free speech protected by the First Amendment, but that argument fails because it assumes that Freedom of Speech is an individual right when everyone knows that it is a collective right like all others in the Bill of Rights.
Gov. Schwarzenegger will understand better than ordinary citizens that although the First Amendment protects the right of everyone in the United States to express themselves it does not protect the right of any individual citizen to express himself or herself. So when everyone in the country says exactly the same thing at the same moment, their right to do so is guaranteed by the First Amendment. But if even one person does not participate in that uniform chorus nobody else has the right to speak.
Laymen are often confused about that point but Gov. Schwarzenegger should understand it or, if he needs explanation, can contact Paul Helmke of The Brady Campaign or California's own Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, for assistance.
Please do not get bogged down in my explanation of these fine Constitutional points. Consider writing or e-mailing Gov. Schwarzenegger today to ask him to issue an immediate executive order banning the production of films and other media, including audio recordings, that glorify guns and make them attractive to our children. That order should include immediate confiscation of such destructive media produced in the past. We look to him to protect us from the illegal media with which California has been flooding our nation for nearly a century.
I am, by the way, absolutely serious. Here is Gov. Schwarzenegger's e-mail address: http://www.capwiz.com/politicsol/mail/?id=141270&type=GV&state=CA. I have no doubt that he would be happy to hear from everyone in the country because the corrosive media produced in California corrupts the entire United States.
