Law and Order's Hunting Massacre Show
Hat tip to Badger Blog Alliance for the heads up on tonight's episode of law and Order. The show didn't focus much on the hunters that were killed, but on the guy who tried to be a hero in chasing down the person that did the shooting.
They did however get in their anti-gun agenda, and here is how that went:
First, at the beginning of the show (and you have to forgive me because I don't know the actor's names at all), a detective pulls a Remington bolt action rifle out of the trunk of a car, and comments on what a nice deer rifle it is, how he used to hunt with one, etc. Basically, they are setting themselves up as "pro hunting/pro-gun" in this scene. I wish I had caught the model of the Remington, but if anyone did, I'd like to know what it was. I'd bet a 6-pack it was a single shot model (no magazine capacity of any kind).
Later, a detective pulls a rifle out of a dumpster (supposedly the one used to kill the hunters). He looks at it, and with a disapproving tone to his voice says "Semi automatic. That's no hunting rifle." The gun is one of those that looks like a military gun, an assault rifle, but of course isn't. They are relying on the fact that if the gun looks military to most people, they will associate semi-automatic rifle with military rifle with "bad gun that should be outlawed".
Of course as we all know, whether the gun is a semi-auto, bolt action, lever action or any other type of action is irrelevant to what the gun is used for. Just like the Clinton Gun Ban (thankfully now deceased), they are basing their judgment on purely cosmetic features of the gun. If it looks bad, it must be bad. All you need to turn any rifle into an assault rifle (including the bolt action shown at the beginning of the show) is a bad person behind the trigger.
In the last piece of this anti-gun episode, a police officer under oath in court says, "…semi-automatics are inappropriate for hunting. That kind of gun maims deer more often that it kills them."
That is a blatant lie. Any gun will maim a deer if the shooter can't hit what he/she is aiming at. Semi automatics are as appropriate for deer hunting as the bolt action they came out with first on the show.
Unfortunately, this turned out to be a very well choreographed effort to instill bias against semi-automatic weapons in the general public. Just as unfortunate, there are far too many people out there that will actually believe this anti-gun propaganda (that semi-autos aren't appropriate for deer hunting and they maim more than they kill, and the unspoken implication that they should be banned).
Disgusting. Sometimes I wonder why I watch TV at all. Then I realize I have to in order to find out what kind of tricks the anti-gun left is up to.
They did however get in their anti-gun agenda, and here is how that went:
First, at the beginning of the show (and you have to forgive me because I don't know the actor's names at all), a detective pulls a Remington bolt action rifle out of the trunk of a car, and comments on what a nice deer rifle it is, how he used to hunt with one, etc. Basically, they are setting themselves up as "pro hunting/pro-gun" in this scene. I wish I had caught the model of the Remington, but if anyone did, I'd like to know what it was. I'd bet a 6-pack it was a single shot model (no magazine capacity of any kind).
Later, a detective pulls a rifle out of a dumpster (supposedly the one used to kill the hunters). He looks at it, and with a disapproving tone to his voice says "Semi automatic. That's no hunting rifle." The gun is one of those that looks like a military gun, an assault rifle, but of course isn't. They are relying on the fact that if the gun looks military to most people, they will associate semi-automatic rifle with military rifle with "bad gun that should be outlawed".
Of course as we all know, whether the gun is a semi-auto, bolt action, lever action or any other type of action is irrelevant to what the gun is used for. Just like the Clinton Gun Ban (thankfully now deceased), they are basing their judgment on purely cosmetic features of the gun. If it looks bad, it must be bad. All you need to turn any rifle into an assault rifle (including the bolt action shown at the beginning of the show) is a bad person behind the trigger.
In the last piece of this anti-gun episode, a police officer under oath in court says, "…semi-automatics are inappropriate for hunting. That kind of gun maims deer more often that it kills them."
That is a blatant lie. Any gun will maim a deer if the shooter can't hit what he/she is aiming at. Semi automatics are as appropriate for deer hunting as the bolt action they came out with first on the show.
Unfortunately, this turned out to be a very well choreographed effort to instill bias against semi-automatic weapons in the general public. Just as unfortunate, there are far too many people out there that will actually believe this anti-gun propaganda (that semi-autos aren't appropriate for deer hunting and they maim more than they kill, and the unspoken implication that they should be banned).
Disgusting. Sometimes I wonder why I watch TV at all. Then I realize I have to in order to find out what kind of tricks the anti-gun left is up to.
posted by Paul | 8:22 PM
4 Comments:
Excellent points. Typical Hollywood-type bias.
Good dissection of the TV show agenda. They often stack the deck with a cartoonish or distorted view of the issue and the protaganist takes Hollywood's politically-correct position as a given. In this case guns, in other shows it's politics or abortion or whatever. And you're right, the concern is that this subconsciously affects viewer's perceptions on these issues. Great point about the fact that a bad guy makes any gun an assault weapon. An extention of that is almost any item in the hands of a bad guy could be a murder weapon.
TJS
There was also a blatant slam on people who put yellow ribbons on their cars which was tied in to another slam on people who drive SUVs.
Interesting point about the use of the word "assault weapon".
But you make the same mistake, calling the Brady Bill (it was started and pushed by the wife of James Brady, a Reagan cabinet member and Republican) into the "Clinton" gun bill.
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