Propagandizing the Unsafe Handling and Usage of Firearms in Television and the Movies 06 21 2024

 So perhaps the Baldwin case brings insight into another issue?

The other night I watched a movie.  In it members of law enforcement went to the weapons locker and got AR-15's in order to take on some bank robbers.  I don't need to mention the part where law enforcement fired those weapons in an area with 50 cars with people in them. That isn't the main point.  The main point needed to be addressed a long time before it ever got to that point.

When those law enforcement officers got those guns they did not keep the muzzles of them pointed in a safe direction at all times!

Now I know what you are saying, "Big deal!"  Sad that you say that, because it means you are not of the level of responsibility.

So two things here.

1.  I have to wonder if an actor ever just flat out said, "That is not the way a gun is to be handled!  I am not doing the scene that way!"  And perhaps a directors response was, "That is the way the scene will be portrayed or you will not get paid?"

2.  Could Directors or producers of such movies be liable if they falsely propagandized the unsafe handling of firearms by law enforcement?

3.  Yes perhaps a third point.  Has propagandizing the unsafe handling and usage of firearms in the Movies caused irresponsible people to seek a career in any division of law enforcement?  Whereby the risk of law enforcement becoming populated by such becomes a risk?

4. We all have watched drama movies whereby someone is stereotyped as being mentally ill.  Then the commercials during that movie are for mentally ill drugs?  The question becomes is there an intent to propagandize the unsafe handling of firearms by law enforcement in order to lessen the value of our Second Amendment and therefore freedom?  Very subtle?

Now perhaps I will go to issue 3.  Someone see's a law enforcement character in the movies handling a firearm unsafely and they identify with that person?  To them, that is all there is to it, being that there is nothing to is?  Oh boy!  Wow!  Didn't I just flush something out!  People who believe in general, "That is all there is to it, being that there is nothing to it!"  Don't you just love them?  You could make a whole series of comedy shows or crime shows based on that principle, people like that getting in real big trouble, because they believed, "That is all there is to it, being that there is nothing to it."

I have just seen way too many televisions shows and movies whereby law enforcement handles firearms unsafely.  Oh and you don't like critical thinkers do you?  Think about that sentence?  How many people who don't like critical thinkers and critical thinking would not be able to safely handle a firearm?

© 2024 Thomas Paul Murphy

Ps.  I can hear that already.  "Nobody wants to watch a movie whereby law enforcement safely handles firearm's.  That is too hard of a movie to make.  There is no money in  making movies or shows like that!  Get out of here Tom, you are not one of us."