Clipper
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Halo, I have serious concern for anyone who knows that much about any episode of MacGyver...
What are the most ANTI-gun movies?
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jimmyraythomason
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Billy Jack
When Billy Jack says that Abraham Lincoln,Martin Luther King jr,Jack and Bobby Kennedy are all dead because "we don't register our guns like we do our cars or pets". Sheesh!!!!
When Billy Jack says that Abraham Lincoln,Martin Luther King jr,Jack and Bobby Kennedy are all dead because "we don't register our guns like we do our cars or pets". Sheesh!!!!
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I took Lord of War to show that people make their own decisions and must face the consequences.
The fellow that is knocking Doctor Who has not watched most of the 40 seasons out there.
The Doctor always tries to resolve things in the most humane manner possible. He has attempted to resolve disputes between peoples of equal intelligence and power.
He has also capitulated enemies of humanity with far superior power without so much as a discussion.
The Doctor is once of the most balanced characters going on TV. Throughout the '60's and the 70's the nut job liberals tried to have the show stopped.
Perhaps this tells you something?
The Doctor
The fellow that is knocking Doctor Who has not watched most of the 40 seasons out there.
The Doctor always tries to resolve things in the most humane manner possible. He has attempted to resolve disputes between peoples of equal intelligence and power.
He has also capitulated enemies of humanity with far superior power without so much as a discussion.
The Doctor is once of the most balanced characters going on TV. Throughout the '60's and the 70's the nut job liberals tried to have the show stopped.
Perhaps this tells you something?
The Doctor
Shung
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dude, I loved MacGyver when I was a kid !!! 
plexreticle
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It's amazing a school would show this crap and consider it education.
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Re: Dr. Who...
The last couple of years/series, the good Doctor has taken a decidedly unbalanced view of guns.
Not of weapons, for he has personally borne them against his enemies, using swords and other nonsense he McGuyvers together, ("anti plastic" comes spectacularly to mind) but he has gone totally loopy on guns in specific, as if chemically propelled projectile arms were of an entirely different moral category.
It flowed so unnaturally in a few episodes that it was clear to me that the writer's where more interested in ideology than the integrity of the show.
The last couple of years/series, the good Doctor has taken a decidedly unbalanced view of guns.
Not of weapons, for he has personally borne them against his enemies, using swords and other nonsense he McGuyvers together, ("anti plastic" comes spectacularly to mind) but he has gone totally loopy on guns in specific, as if chemically propelled projectile arms were of an entirely different moral category.
It flowed so unnaturally in a few episodes that it was clear to me that the writer's where more interested in ideology than the integrity of the show.
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Nothing wrong with Mad max movies...
Valuable lessons, actually. GOod people with crossbows and boomerangs get preyed upon by bad people with guns. Good guys with guns shoot the bad guys in the face. Moral: Good people should get more guns in case of apocalyptic events.
Valuable lessons, actually. GOod people with crossbows and boomerangs get preyed upon by bad people with guns. Good guys with guns shoot the bad guys in the face. Moral: Good people should get more guns in case of apocalyptic events.
esmith
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How so?
matt87
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Checkman said:
Perhaps I should make aspersions about your country sir. However, since that's not we do round here, I will not.
I should point out that it is a program produced by the BBC, which has a history of being a lap-dog to government whims. (The BBC is funded by a compulsory television tax, and turkeys don't vote for Christmas.) THAT may explain it.
Neo-Luddite
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Sally Struthers A Gun in the House. Early 80's, made for TV.
There is a whole media industry 'advisory' group that has an extensive website that suggests new and fun way to weave anti-gun propaganda into story lines.
There is a whole media industry 'advisory' group that has an extensive website that suggests new and fun way to weave anti-gun propaganda into story lines.
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I too hated the Iron Giant for the very fact the line in the movie is "guns kill."
Even my very young children understand that guns do not kill. People pull the trigger.
The director is Brad Bird and he is a leftist nut. Pixar hired him to make their movies and I have refused to see them after The Incredibles was released. He has an agenda and I hate that he uses 'family friendly movies' to push it.
I will admit that I LOVE the segment of the Weird Al movie "UHF" where the NRA guy says that, "Guns don't kill people, I do."
I never found an anti gun message there. The truth is that I would gather that as strange as a guy that Al is, he is probably pro gun.
There are a few pro gunners in Hollyweird.
Even my very young children understand that guns do not kill. People pull the trigger.
The director is Brad Bird and he is a leftist nut. Pixar hired him to make their movies and I have refused to see them after The Incredibles was released. He has an agenda and I hate that he uses 'family friendly movies' to push it.
I will admit that I LOVE the segment of the Weird Al movie "UHF" where the NRA guy says that, "Guns don't kill people, I do."
I never found an anti gun message there. The truth is that I would gather that as strange as a guy that Al is, he is probably pro gun.
There are a few pro gunners in Hollyweird.
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I wouldn't call Lord of War anti-gun. I'd say it's more nihilist about firearms (saying that people will kill one another with whatever they happen to have on hand).
Bambi
Was originally cartooned around the time of W.W.2
The very beginning of that movie
Walt Disney chose to cast a deer hunter
in a non-professional image
to an audience of children who now rule the world
I was four or barely five years old and got to see that technicolored at the local movie theater in about 1984 or 1985. Smuggled my matchbox cars with me to the movie. Unexpected to a little kid, that sound of a shot and Bambis mom being shot...
As a young boy wearing a MickeyMouse hat (A round hat with no brim off the forehead, and having mouse ears mounted to it)
I never would have guessed that I would someday view the Disneymonster in an ill light.
Was originally cartooned around the time of W.W.2
The very beginning of that movie
Walt Disney chose to cast a deer hunter
in a non-professional image
to an audience of children who now rule the world
I was four or barely five years old and got to see that technicolored at the local movie theater in about 1984 or 1985. Smuggled my matchbox cars with me to the movie. Unexpected to a little kid, that sound of a shot and Bambis mom being shot...
As a young boy wearing a MickeyMouse hat (A round hat with no brim off the forehead, and having mouse ears mounted to it)
I never would have guessed that I would someday view the Disneymonster in an ill light.
matt87
Yes I know that there are British subjects who own firearms and were forced to give up their handguns to be crushed and melted down in 1997. I feel for you folks. There is much about England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdon that I admire. I own several Lee Enfield rifles and a Webley MK VI that I'm very fond of.
Actually I enjoy alot of England's television and movie productions. The Sweeney, Dr. Who (that's right), A Midsummer Murder, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, and so on. All shows I have enjoyed tremendously over the years.
However the official party line from your national goverment, and therefore the BBC, is one that is anti-gun and anti self-defense. As you pointed out Dr. Who is a BBC production which makes it something of a branch of the British goverment.
This is not a slur merely an observation. Once again allow me to point out what happened in 97 and also the late eighties after that maniac went on his shooting spree in the small village. Sorry the name escapes me. And for that matter what resulted after the bank robbers were cornered and went down shooting in 1911 in London. The one that Winston Churchill went to. If I remember correctly the aftermath was the start of handgun registeration in England.
Your country has been a good friend and ally of the United States. Your performance in 1940 and 1941 was magnificant. You held the line in 1916 and 1917 when the French were in danger of crumbling and in the Cold War your nation was one of the few NATO nations that actually stood beside my country.
But your countrymen come across as being very uncomfortable with the idea of private gunownership and self-defense. That's the way it look to me across the ocean. And, in all fairness, I've seen some British shows and read more than a few British articles that are very uncomplimentary to my nation and fellow countrymen as well.
It's the way of the world. Hopefully this clears things up.
Yes I know that there are British subjects who own firearms and were forced to give up their handguns to be crushed and melted down in 1997. I feel for you folks. There is much about England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdon that I admire. I own several Lee Enfield rifles and a Webley MK VI that I'm very fond of.
Actually I enjoy alot of England's television and movie productions. The Sweeney, Dr. Who (that's right), A Midsummer Murder, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, and so on. All shows I have enjoyed tremendously over the years.
However the official party line from your national goverment, and therefore the BBC, is one that is anti-gun and anti self-defense. As you pointed out Dr. Who is a BBC production which makes it something of a branch of the British goverment.
This is not a slur merely an observation. Once again allow me to point out what happened in 97 and also the late eighties after that maniac went on his shooting spree in the small village. Sorry the name escapes me. And for that matter what resulted after the bank robbers were cornered and went down shooting in 1911 in London. The one that Winston Churchill went to. If I remember correctly the aftermath was the start of handgun registeration in England.
Your country has been a good friend and ally of the United States. Your performance in 1940 and 1941 was magnificant. You held the line in 1916 and 1917 when the French were in danger of crumbling and in the Cold War your nation was one of the few NATO nations that actually stood beside my country.
But your countrymen come across as being very uncomfortable with the idea of private gunownership and self-defense. That's the way it look to me across the ocean. And, in all fairness, I've seen some British shows and read more than a few British articles that are very uncomplimentary to my nation and fellow countrymen as well.
It's the way of the world. Hopefully this clears things up.
jpruitt
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The Hills Have Eyes (the remake from a few years ago) was a bit anti-gun, not in the sense that any characters espoused anti-gun views, but that the grandfather, a private citizen who owned a gun, was portrayed as a big-mouth macho careless moron who handled his gun (and let a kid handle it) with little regard for gun safety. It painted gun owners in a very negative light.
I'd love to see a movie where an armed private citizen is portrayed using a gun responsibly.
Not a movie, but I remember an episode of the Golden Girls where one of them buys a gun for protection after she gets robbed. One night one of the other GGs is coming home late and the one with the gun takes a shot at her in the dark. A third GG (Bea Arthur's character) takes the gun from her and hold it between her thumb and index finger (the way you would hold a stinky bag of garbage) and throws it aside as if she thinks it's going to jump up and bite her on its own. The message was pretty clear in that one.
I'd love to see a movie where an armed private citizen is portrayed using a gun responsibly.
Not a movie, but I remember an episode of the Golden Girls where one of them buys a gun for protection after she gets robbed. One night one of the other GGs is coming home late and the one with the gun takes a shot at her in the dark. A third GG (Bea Arthur's character) takes the gun from her and hold it between her thumb and index finger (the way you would hold a stinky bag of garbage) and throws it aside as if she thinks it's going to jump up and bite her on its own. The message was pretty clear in that one.
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BAMBI
I never even paid enough attention to that to note that the plot was changed from the book's plot, which was about a tobacco company lawsuit.
Why on earth would they change the plot of a very good book, except if they wanted to make an overt anti-gun message?
Whoever mentioned Crash ... I don't know about anti-gun but that is one of the best all-around movies ever made. I don't think it is anti-gun and nobody is trying to say that the shop owner who tries to kill the lock smith with a gun was motivated to kill because of the gun.
And BTW, Shoot Em Up was just a plain old terrible movie. What a piece of trash.
And BTW, Shoot Em Up was just a plain old terrible movie. What a piece of trash.
Thumper_6119
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Most of the Lethal Weapon movies have some sort of gun control/anti-gun posters hung up in the police station scenes.
Halo
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The TV show Frasier, which is one I overall enjoyed, did have some anti-gun elements in a few episodes. In one episode Niles gets a gun, and his dad the retired cop admonishes him for it saying "I don't believe in civilians owning guns!"
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