Movies where guns would make it rather short.
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Thain
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Bowling for Columbine; I am being absolutely serious about this. Had there been an armed teacher in that school far fewer kids would havve died and this movie would never have been made!
Lurp
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Completely agree with 28 days later! I'm a huge fan of any kind of apocolyptic end of the world/zombie movie and it gets me angry when I see zombies that can be taken out with a bullet that does not even have to hit the head, but no one has a gun!!!!!!!!!
If only the British people had been armed, it would have been a MUCH shorter movie 
I hope in the upcoming one suppossed to be released in the future the French have some kind of weaponry as their laws are very lax compared to the British.
If only the British people had been armed, it would have been a MUCH shorter movie I hope in the upcoming one suppossed to be released in the future the French have some kind of weaponry as their laws are very lax compared to the British.
230RN
2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
Amusing. I posted something similar on the old Packing dot org site on 15 Nov 2005.
Excerpted:
I take no credit for originating this idea.
After all, it's so obvious unless you're a script writer or an anti.
"But I repeat myself," as Mark Twain once said about idiots and Congressmen.
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Ref:
http://www.phnet.fi/public/mamaa1/twain.htm
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Excerpted:
I take no credit for originating this idea.
After all, it's so obvious unless you're a script writer or an anti.
"But I repeat myself," as Mark Twain once said about idiots and Congressmen.
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Ref:
http://www.phnet.fi/public/mamaa1/twain.htm
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
AVESguy
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SIGNS with Mel Gibson
Towards the end they were hiding in the house with an axe or a stick for protection as aliens descended on them. How many farmers in the middle of nowhere don't at least have a shotgun? What an idiotic movie. Only a hollywood hack could dream up that one.....
And what about...
KEY LARGO
Towards the end they were hiding in the house with an axe or a stick for protection as aliens descended on them. How many farmers in the middle of nowhere don't at least have a shotgun? What an idiotic movie. Only a hollywood hack could dream up that one.....
And what about...
KEY LARGO
Nolo
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Heavy Metal Hero (from way back early in the thread), I watched the fifth Harry Potter movie when it came out, and (because I'm insane and think about guns all the time) the entire time I thought "how would I defeat wizards with a gun?" My theory was if the Death-Eaters started to attack the civvies and we had a big Muggle-on-Wizard war. See, the primary combat spells in a wizard's arsenal are the stunning spell, the reflecting spell, the disarmament spell and the various curses. The one that I was most worried about was the disarmament spell, as that would ruin any gunny's day. What I came up with was some kind of submachinegun or assault rifle that has a very, very high capacity clip (50-ish rounds), decent range and okay stopping power. The best round for this would probably be 5.7 FN, just because it is so small. I decided that I'd want to have multiple weapons on board, because of the disarmament spell, so I chose the P90 PDW, because it is very light and I can carry multiple copies. The magazines are also high-capacity and light. I figured out that I'd want to have some kind of shield, probably mirrored (they show spells ricocheting off of mirrored surfaces in the movie), so the ability to use the weapon one-handed it is bonus. The high rate of fire makes it a lot harder for a wizard to react to and deflect all of the rounds coming at him and I figure that stopping power would be less of an issue because the wizards aren't used to being shot. Maybe I'm thinking incorrectly. Anyway, in the event that a Muggle couldn't acquire a P90, a MAC or Uzi would suffice. AKs and other assault rifles are a bit big for the job. Another method would be to just snipe the wizards and be done with it.
Of course, none of this really applies, as the books take place in The People's Republic of Great Britain.
Of course, none of this really applies, as the books take place in The People's Republic of Great Britain.
Diamondback6
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Ladies and gentlemen, I think we just answered "What Caliber for Voldemort"... 
On JP, 10-ton T-rex vs. 60-ton tank. No-brainer. Dilos were no threat if you had eye protection, and I'd like to see a raptor move fast enough to dodge a coax 7.62... or one good incendiary in the middle of the pack.
How 'bout 2 and 3 of Pirates of the Caribbean? If that fop Governor had put one each between Beckett and his pet murderous thug-in-black's eyes, it woulda been Story Over...
On JP, 10-ton T-rex vs. 60-ton tank. No-brainer. Dilos were no threat if you had eye protection, and I'd like to see a raptor move fast enough to dodge a coax 7.62... or one good incendiary in the middle of the pack.
How 'bout 2 and 3 of Pirates of the Caribbean? If that fop Governor had put one each between Beckett and his pet murderous thug-in-black's eyes, it woulda been Story Over...
Dr. Peter Venkman
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jeepmor said:
Your wife is almost ready to give birth to your child, has hardly an area to hide a pistol (thanks to the extra weight) while dealing with the uncomfort of an extra person living inside of her, and yet you continue to lecture about concealed carry? Sorry buddy, when your wife is that far along, its your job to keep the mother of your would-be child safe in regards to being out in public.
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Harry Potter (shoot Voldemort)
Jurassic Park with close-air support (A-10)
Halloween (but with a handcannon or simply a .50 BMG to blow Michael's head off)
Friday the 13th I-X (Same as above)
28 Days/Weeks later (M1919 with plenty of ammunition or a belt-fed .22, or a rooftop position with a couple of gallons of Hoppes #9, CLP, few thousand patches, and 1,000,000 rounds of .22, and a nice Marlin or Mossberg)
Any Zombie movie, see above.
SAW (any handgun for SD)
Any Vampire Flick, just cut crosses into the tips of FMJ rounds
Sheesh, I can go on forever.
moojpg2
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This may be a little off topic, but
I remember when I was really young(i'm 19) my father rented a movie (it was fiction) about a gigantic brown bear that was terrorizing some campers, it was possibly set in a nat'l park or something, I remember at the end they ended up blowing the bear up somehow. I remember that movie scaring the crap out of me when I was young because we did a lot of camping. If anyone can think of the name of it, I'd appreciate it, I'd love to watch it again for kicks. It was almost like a jaws movie, but with a giant brown bear in a camp ground. I think the title was in yellow writing on the jacket. It was definitely a vhs, had to be early 1990's.
My pick for a movie that could have ended faster with a gun would be basically any lifetime original.
I remember when I was really young(i'm 19) my father rented a movie (it was fiction) about a gigantic brown bear that was terrorizing some campers, it was possibly set in a nat'l park or something, I remember at the end they ended up blowing the bear up somehow. I remember that movie scaring the crap out of me when I was young because we did a lot of camping. If anyone can think of the name of it, I'd appreciate it, I'd love to watch it again for kicks. It was almost like a jaws movie, but with a giant brown bear in a camp ground. I think the title was in yellow writing on the jacket. It was definitely a vhs, had to be early 1990's.
My pick for a movie that could have ended faster with a gun would be basically any lifetime original.
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9mm or .40S&W Hi-points didn't you see them in the movie
nwilliams
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My picks....
The original Wicker Man
Hostel
Alien
Alien 3
Collateral
The original Wicker Man
Hostel
Alien
Alien 3
Collateral
Ragnar Danneskjold
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Speaking of the Wicker Man, I found it strange that in the new one, the protagonist, a cop, didn't carry reloads, didn't check his weapon and mags when it left his sight, and couldn't even feel the weight differance between an empty or a full weapon. He pulls out his pistol to shoot, and then finds out they took the rounds out of his magazine.
I believe Dr. Venkman's got it... As a philisophically interesting conversation, go for it, but in real life, my wife's CCW during pregnancy is a cranky husband with an 870 who wants her to sleep as much as possible.
Also, it's naughty to frighten pregnant women. Did you go to the hospital yet and listen to any of the nice people talking about the hormones? Can the zombie stuff! It's bad enough without crazy scary made up threats to your child.
Also, it's naughty to frighten pregnant women. Did you go to the hospital yet and listen to any of the nice people talking about the hormones? Can the zombie stuff! It's bad enough without crazy scary made up threats to your child.
Vacancy, Touristas, etc.
If any one of them were armed in either movie, it would have ended very fast.
Actually, in Vacancy, it is ended when one of the people grabs a .45 Colt revolver that happened to be loaded while on a wall display, shoots the BG. But only after several innocents die and chase them around the place for a while.
If any one of them were armed in either movie, it would have ended very fast.
Actually, in Vacancy, it is ended when one of the people grabs a .45 Colt revolver that happened to be loaded while on a wall display, shoots the BG. But only after several innocents die and chase them around the place for a while.
Guitargod1985
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YEah, that's the joke behind Scott (Dr. Evil's son) in Austin Powers.
He says something to the effect of, "I have a gun in my room, why don't I just go get it and we can shoot him together."
Sir Aardvark
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre could easily have become The Texas Shotgun Self-Defense... thus ending the newly emerged horror genre before it even had a chance to take root.
Shadow1198
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Yet another good reason to keep a few boxes of Winchester Silvertips around just in case!
No kidding. The only reason I could finish that movie is because Jessica Biel is very, very attractive. I was rooting for the chainsaw whacko. If I have to choose between siding with the person who chooses evil over goodness, or the person choosing weakness over strength, I am siding with the evil one.Sir Aardvark said:
Wow, I think that's my most popular thread ever.
Pax - you did not derail this thread at all, actually, you covered what I was asking for. And Bill Cosby said it best in Bill Cosby, Himself, a stand up routine from the mid to late 80's. Men, unless you're passing a bowling ball, you have no idea.
I was not trying to advocate my pregnant wife carry on her body, I was more trying to address the point that she was saying how easy it would be to take said bad guy out and yet does not find a way to carry. She says things like, I'd just pop him with my 9mm! I said, you don't carry your 9mm. It won't help you sitting on a nightstand at home honey (uncomfortable pregnant woman scowl follows my statement) then I add....sweetpea, I love you, can I rub your feet, get you some pillows, make you some tea?....and so on. We have looked at the concealment purses for her where the firearm is not even accessible via the main compartments, I've offered to buy her one. We have surfed Pax's site, we've discussed the issue quite a bit. However, I still can't get her to commit to it and I tell her something to the effect, I know off body carry is not ideal, but you're pregnant and I'm willing to spend the money for you to get a nice concealment purse to fill the gap until junior arrives. It's not like you won't ever use the purse again, a good concealment purse will still be a good purse once you're no longer pregnant and we can get you a good on-body holster of some sort. However, the step at which you actually begin carrying the gun has to be addressed. Your concealed permit will not offer any protection or defense against an assailant.
I see the discomfort, the due date was Saturday, our boy can't read the calendar just yet so he's waiting.
My wife was never frightened, militant would be a more apt term, frightened, not at all. My point is, that gun on the nightstand won't help you if it's on the nightstand. I know you're uncomfortable, but I have to go to work honey, I can't stand guard every second of every day, even though I happily stand guard every waking moment I'm not working or sleeping.
Okay, I see my title blew it, I know Hollywood would quickly run out of suspenseful script material if they had people addressing the Bad Guys with guns when they have the guns to do so, which is so often the case. My question is, has anything like that ever aided in getting your significant other to actually begin carrying because they can see that there was a justified case where a firearm would have saved the day, or rather, offered a much better fighting chance.
A personal turning point for me was several years back, no movie here, a real event, when two ex-Marines attacked a man and his woman while they were camping in the Mt. Hood area. They tied up the man to a tree, raped his wife in front of him...and I don't recall the outcome, I think they killed them both, it's been a long time. What hit me so hard was that my wife and I were camping in that vicinity for nearly every possible weekend long before the rains stopped in the spring to long after they had started in the fall. We were avid outdoor types and very easily could have fallen prey to this type of scenario. A ccw on each of us would have definitely prevented this for it started with casual conversation, then turned felonious and ugly.
Pax - you did not derail this thread at all, actually, you covered what I was asking for. And Bill Cosby said it best in Bill Cosby, Himself, a stand up routine from the mid to late 80's. Men, unless you're passing a bowling ball, you have no idea.
I was not trying to advocate my pregnant wife carry on her body, I was more trying to address the point that she was saying how easy it would be to take said bad guy out and yet does not find a way to carry. She says things like, I'd just pop him with my 9mm! I said, you don't carry your 9mm. It won't help you sitting on a nightstand at home honey (uncomfortable pregnant woman scowl follows my statement) then I add....sweetpea, I love you, can I rub your feet, get you some pillows, make you some tea?....and so on. We have looked at the concealment purses for her where the firearm is not even accessible via the main compartments, I've offered to buy her one. We have surfed Pax's site, we've discussed the issue quite a bit. However, I still can't get her to commit to it and I tell her something to the effect, I know off body carry is not ideal, but you're pregnant and I'm willing to spend the money for you to get a nice concealment purse to fill the gap until junior arrives. It's not like you won't ever use the purse again, a good concealment purse will still be a good purse once you're no longer pregnant and we can get you a good on-body holster of some sort. However, the step at which you actually begin carrying the gun has to be addressed. Your concealed permit will not offer any protection or defense against an assailant.
I see the discomfort, the due date was Saturday, our boy can't read the calendar just yet so he's waiting.
My wife was never frightened, militant would be a more apt term, frightened, not at all. My point is, that gun on the nightstand won't help you if it's on the nightstand. I know you're uncomfortable, but I have to go to work honey, I can't stand guard every second of every day, even though I happily stand guard every waking moment I'm not working or sleeping.
Okay, I see my title blew it, I know Hollywood would quickly run out of suspenseful script material if they had people addressing the Bad Guys with guns when they have the guns to do so, which is so often the case. My question is, has anything like that ever aided in getting your significant other to actually begin carrying because they can see that there was a justified case where a firearm would have saved the day, or rather, offered a much better fighting chance.
A personal turning point for me was several years back, no movie here, a real event, when two ex-Marines attacked a man and his woman while they were camping in the Mt. Hood area. They tied up the man to a tree, raped his wife in front of him...and I don't recall the outcome, I think they killed them both, it's been a long time. What hit me so hard was that my wife and I were camping in that vicinity for nearly every possible weekend long before the rains stopped in the spring to long after they had started in the fall. We were avid outdoor types and very easily could have fallen prey to this type of scenario. A ccw on each of us would have definitely prevented this for it started with casual conversation, then turned felonious and ugly.
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Re: Harry Potter.
I'm confused about why Voldemort doesn't simply pay a couple of big lads to go around to Harry's Muggle home and beat him to death.
Re: Halloween H20:
So, Laurie Strode has had PTSD for 20 years and all she can come up with to defend herself when Michael Myers finally shows up is a single snub revolver with no reloads?
I'm confused about why Voldemort doesn't simply pay a couple of big lads to go around to Harry's Muggle home and beat him to death.
Re: Halloween H20:
So, Laurie Strode has had PTSD for 20 years and all she can come up with to defend herself when Michael Myers finally shows up is a single snub revolver with no reloads?
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