On Sat, 28 May 2016 16:05:03 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:


Actually i think it would be a healthy thing if the media industries
worked at showing less gun play. The amount we have now is totally
unnatural and can lead impressionable people to think that gun
violence is normal behavior. If you flip through the channels someone
is being shot or threatened every few minutes.


I agree and I have always said Hollywood drives gun sales more than
the NRA. In the 50s when westerns were all we saw, Bill Ruger made a
fortune building single action revolvers and the lever action rifle
was restored to firearm catalogs. In the 60 and 70s, it was detective
shows and the snub nosed revolver was king. When military weapons
started showing up in cop shows, people bought assault weapons.
Nobody would have bought .44 magnum pistols without Dirty Harry
If we didn't buy what we saw on TV, super bowl ads would not be over a
million a minute.