Mickey Moore Got the Guns Out of Walmart?

[rayra]

jAK-47, I'm not disagreeing about how rational informed gun owners interpret his propaganda piece. I'm speaking of the uninformed preaching to the even more ignorant within the Anti crowd. For that, its target audience, 'Bowling for Lies' is an outstanding fear-reinforcing manipulation.

 

[killermarmot]

I think the thing is, Do I think this movie shouldn't have been made? no, should it never have been realeased? no, Moore has every right to make garbage like this and mirimax has every right to make money off of garbage like this. I just wish that it wouldn ot be classified as a documentary, because it is not. This is the kind of thing he has always been about, ambushing people then manipulating what they say later to make them seem heartless, cruel, foolish, or like saints depending on who they are. You also have to keep in mind we are criticaly anylzing this film. Most people walk out of there thinking "ya know he's right when he said 'should a country with this much anger be able to have so many guns?' and they take that home and when they see Ted kennedy's name, boxer, feinstein, and all the others names on the ballot they check that little box. And when my girlfirend saw it in davis afterwards her "friends" called her father a savage for being a hunter and all of us redneck old fashioned fools for owning guns. This is why I personally do not like films like this, they are rabal rousing incitful garbage and I've had to deal with my share of sh$t because of it. So while objectively I look at it and say "yeah, ya know, he really IS saying, don't blame guns, video games, music, etc. He doesn't have a cohesive message and backtracks by the end of the film. What it feels like to me is he makes it so every person seeing the film will say "yeah but that 17% in the middle I agreed with, the rest was crap, he sells more copies, and I get pissed off I think it's a shame he wound up like this because TV nation used to be a funny show (ofcourse I was 15 at the time)

 

[jAK-47]

The mother in the cartoon is leaving to go to her Million Mom March. Next week, it will be "Save the Salamander". Too bad she doesn't have time for her kid!

Here's another one I like

Later,
jAK-47

 

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

 

[artherd]

Funny thing is, I think Moore was on the right track at getting ahold of the PROBLEM, then got side-locked and decided the easiest thing to add to sales was to advocate baning guns.

He didn't finish the job he set out to do, which was really "Hey, if you want to blame guns for Columbine, you might just as easily blame BOWLING!"

He should have ended with a shrilling inditment of the parents, but instead he went to k-mart HQ and made an ass of himself and those two kids (who clearly to me didn't know what was going on.)

The liberal idoits who comprise most of the citizenry didn't even get that far, and just say 'ugh, gun, bad! DEY TOOK OUR JOB, DEEEER!'

I really liked one quote.
"What do you use for Home Defense?"
"M-16."

 

[jAK-47]

He should have ended with a shrilling inditment of the parents

My cartoon above took care of THAT!

jAK-47

 

[DigMe]

Oops...deleted post...my oversight.

brad cook