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Salmonbait says
The Entertainment Industries Council has a list of 30 ways to denigrate gun ownership. Gotta love Hollywood. Good thing Hopalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger, et al, are no longer shown on TV.
http://www.eiconline.org/topic-areas...n-suggestions/
Gosh, fella, you really have a chip on your shoulder. Are you one of those gun nuts?
What's wrong with these suggestions?
Attempt to highlight alternative resolutions to conflict rather than relying on gunplay as the only or automatic means of settling confrontations. Clashes can be resolved by other less lethal means, perhaps by characters using their wits and cunning to overcome opponents.
Consider highlighting the emotional consequences for the shooter, such as feelings of guilt, remorse, personal angst, and so on.
Consider incorporating such real-life scenarios as:
The shooter or possessor of a gun being accidently injured by it.
A gun accidentally misfiring while being loaded or unloaded by a criminal or other user.
A gun misfiring and injuring someone after being accidentally dropped.
Try emphasizing the fact that introducing a gun into an argument lethalizes anger: What could have been resolved with just harsh words, or even cuts and bruises, may end up with a death. Guns don’t allow for cooling off or reconciling once the momentary or situational anger subsides.

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On Sat, 28 May 2016 18:12:23 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous wrote:

Salmonbait says
The Entertainment Industries Council has a list of 30 ways to denigrate gun ownership. Gotta love Hollywood. Good thing Hopalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger, et al, are no longer shown on TV.
http://www.eiconline.org/topic-areas...n-suggestions/
Gosh, fella, you really have a chip on your shoulder. Are you one of those gun nuts?
What's wrong with these suggestions?
Attempt to highlight alternative resolutions to conflict rather than relying on gunplay as the only or automatic means of settling confrontations. Clashes can be resolved by other less lethal means, perhaps by characters using their wits and cunning to overcome opponents.
Consider highlighting the emotional consequences for the shooter, such as feelings of guilt, remorse, personal angst, and so on.
Consider incorporating such real-life scenarios as:
The shooter or possessor of a gun being accidently injured by it.
A gun accidentally misfiring while being loaded or unloaded by a criminal or other user.
A gun misfiring and injuring someone after being accidentally dropped.
Try emphasizing the fact that introducing a gun into an argument lethalizes anger: What could have been resolved with just harsh words, or even cuts and bruises, may end up with a death. Guns don’t allow for cooling off or reconciling once the momentary or situational anger subsides.

You reckon their motive is to encourage gun safety?

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On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:24:41 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Sat, 28 May 2016 18:12:23 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous wrote:

Salmonbait says
The Entertainment Industries Council has a list of 30 ways to denigrate gun ownership. Gotta love Hollywood. Good thing Hopalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger, et al, are no longer shown on TV.
http://www.eiconline.org/topic-areas...n-suggestions/
Gosh, fella, you really have a chip on your shoulder. Are you one of those gun nuts?
What's wrong with these suggestions?
Attempt to highlight alternative resolutions to conflict rather than relying on gunplay as the only or automatic means of settling confrontations. Clashes can be resolved by other less lethal means, perhaps by characters using their wits and cunning to overcome opponents.
Consider highlighting the emotional consequences for the shooter, such as feelings of guilt, remorse, personal angst, and so on.
Consider incorporating such real-life scenarios as:
The shooter or possessor of a gun being accidently injured by it.
A gun accidentally misfiring while being loaded or unloaded by a criminal or other user.
A gun misfiring and injuring someone after being accidentally dropped.
Try emphasizing the fact that introducing a gun into an argument lethalizes anger: What could have been resolved with just harsh words, or even cuts and bruises, may end up with a death. Guns don’t allow for cooling off or reconciling once the momentary or situational anger subsides.

You reckon their motive is to encourage gun safety?

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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.

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

On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:24:41 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Sat, 28 May 2016 18:12:23 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous wrote:

Salmonbait says
The Entertainment Industries Council has a list of 30 ways to denigrate gun ownership. Gotta love Hollywood. Good thing Hopalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger, et al, are no longer shown on TV.
http://www.eiconline.org/topic-areas...n-suggestions/
Gosh, fella, you really have a chip on your shoulder. Are you one of those gun nuts?
What's wrong with these suggestions?
Attempt to highlight alternative resolutions to conflict rather than relying on gunplay as the only or automatic means of settling confrontations. Clashes can be resolved by other less lethal means, perhaps by characters using their wits and cunning to overcome opponents.
Consider highlighting the emotional consequences for the shooter, such as feelings of guilt, remorse, personal angst, and so on.
Consider incorporating such real-life scenarios as:
The shooter or possessor of a gun being accidently injured by it.
A gun accidentally misfiring while being loaded or unloaded by a criminal or other user.
A gun misfiring and injuring someone after being accidentally dropped.
Try emphasizing the fact that introducing a gun into an argument lethalizes anger: What could have been resolved with just harsh words, or even cuts and bruises, may end up with a death. Guns don’t allow for cooling off or reconciling once the momentary or situational anger subsides.

You reckon their motive is to encourage gun safety?

===

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.

Agreed. And I don't see a lot of 'emotional consequences' as desired by the EIC.

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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.