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BREAKING: Anti-NRA Movie Producer Harvey Weinstein Swears Off Violent Movies

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Harvey Weinstein appeared on Piers Morgan’s program this evening, addressing accusations of hypocrisy. Critics of the Hollywood movie producer – who’s green lighted a film that will “make the NRA wish they weren’t alive” – pointed out that much of Weinstein’s body of work has relied heavily on gunplay to put bums on seats. While not exactly owning the contradiction, Harvey acknowledged it and swore off “gratuitous gun violence.” “The change starts here,” he told Morgan. “I’m not going to make some crazy action movie just to blow up people and exploit people and make some crazy action movie.” Quentin Tarantino must be majorly bummed; deadline.com said the Pulp Fiction Director would be looking to Harvey for financing for The Hateful Eight. In this case, it looks like the hateful ate its young. If you know what I mean . . .

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. The City of Houston’s beef with Top Gun is total BS. It’s by far the best indoor range I’ve been to anywhere, and everything is state of the art. There’s absolutely no safety issue (you shoot into several *feet* of rubber mulch, with tilt-wall concrete walls behind that, plus an air handling system that must have cost the world), so there’s something else going on here . . . .
    I won’t poach on TTAG’s turf here, but here’s a suggestion: the particular officers involved are named in the press reports. Name. Shame. And if/when a City Attorney shows up on the case, give him the same treatment.

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  2. From the comments section at cnn.com:

    Ignorance is bliss. All the black rhino in Namibia are owned by Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET). MET holds auctions like this in Windhoek, Namibia, every year and have been since 2004. Most of the bidders in these auctions will be hunting safari operators, who buy permits to shoot particular numbers of specific species, and then offer these to their mailing list of clients, making a profit for themselves. Other countries in Africa do the same thing hoping bidders come to them. Instead, MET has looked at where the wealthiest hunters are – and these tend to be American or German – and have gone straight to the potential customers . Funds from this auction will go to the Game Products Trust Fund in Namibia and will be ring-fenced specifically for rhino conservation efforts. Last year Namibia auctioned off three rhino hunts and brought in just under $600,000 this tag Knowlton bought alone is already more than half of that and it would have been more if bidders would have been more if not for the loons that make death threats.

    I learned stuff.

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  3. I don’t like the fact that he got a gun offender status, and two years probation for what he did seems extreme. Glad that he’s not going to jail any longer, though.

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  4. F’ing hypocrite A hole. Then divest yourself of the millions of dollars you made off those movies and donate them to charity.

    Typical arrogant liberal pig.

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    • Oh but we are extremists, to the exact same extent that “the other side” is extremist. The difference is most of us accept, even relish, the concept of personal responsibility and want our rights un-messed with, and to also live our lives in peace without “help” from the nanny state. The “other side” just can’t have that. They must control everything. For no other reason that to control it. They certainly don’t help or solve anything.

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  5. For all you saying it hurt “our cause” please STFU.

    Because if you are referring to the Second Amendment, last time I checked that’s a god given right. A right doesn’t belong to anyone. It cant be owned, it can’t be regulated and you sure as hell cant take possession of it individually or as a group.

    The only cause you should have is to defend it, exercise it and support those who do the same. And when you do, think about all the people who died defending it, and think about the future generations who will know tyranny and oppression without it.

    Because when you say it’s “our cause” you treat it as a commodity to be bargained away and compromised, because somehow you think it’s yours to do with as you please. “If we toe the line and be good and obedient, maybe they wont try and take our guns away.” Wake the hell up! It won’t stop, not now, not ever.

    So please, stop treating my rights, and the rights I would like guaranteed to future generations like some kind of club. You are exactly the people that will lick the boot, right before its placed on your neck.

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  6. If you know Greg it wasn’t as much about it not being Horner/Butler/Garcia as much as it is Greg is just a great guy. He’s humble and worked very hard to get there. He’ll try to help anyone in the sport. If the greenest shooter asks him the seemingly dumbest question Greg will take the time to answer it. The cool thing is this win won’t change him. He’ll still be one of us.

    It was also that it was a well earned win, over fierce competitors. Shooters appreciate a great show, and from what I’ve seen it was.

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  7. I really don’t trust him. He is Hollywood, making bad movies with Danny Trejo.

    The orders for his release probably came directly from Bloomberg’s Führerbunker, Kokesh is that compromised in my opinion.

    This is coming from someone who is a lot younger than some of you and who is immersed in some of the culture Kokesh is targeting. He is not legit. At best he is a shameless, self serving opportunist and at worst he is working for the enemy.

    I would say ignore him, but instead I think you should keep your eyes and ears open for his next provocative move to associate 2A activism with “9/11 Truth”, drug use or god knows what else. He goes places nobody needs to go in defense of the right to bear arms, you have to ask yourself why?

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  8. Yeah, right.

    On the topic of his movie, either reputing or supporting it, is there any point in taking either side? I mean, we’re 12 years out from Bowling for Columbine which is loaded with lies both partial and complete and either you know that it’s a 90 minute assault on the truth or you don’t care and go on believing the lies anyway.

    To this day I get morons trying to claim the NRA is the KKK who cite that little cartoon as proof. All the evidence to the contrary means absolutely nothing to them.

    The audience believes the message not because it’s the truth but because it is what they want to believe. You can’t counter that mindset. Like a loser in a failing marriage can’t see the infidelity despite the pair of jeans that arent his hanging over the back of a chair in the bedroom.

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  9. I don’t know where this keeps coming from but there is no Kill Bill 3. QT announced at the end of 2013 he has no interest in making one. Do people believe that they will make it without him? He wants to make Westerns now like The Hateful Eight starring Bruce Dern and Christoph Waltz.

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  10. Very well, Governor, allow me to retort. In the senate, the vote was 43-18-1(yea-nay-excused), the republican vote was 11-18 against. Most of those republicans were downstate/long island republicans. (i.e. democrats.) The assembly voted 104-43-3, with republicans voting 7-35 against. Either way, even if EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN had voted against, you still would have gotten this through. So please, don’t try to put this on us.
    Second, I’m glad you were able to define us so neatly. I mean, I didn’t realize that being pro-second amendment, or anti-statist, or simply in favor of not passing unconstitutional legislation meant that I was de-facto anti-gay, or right-to-life. See, I thought that I wasn’t either of those things. Thank heavens you’re here to make sure I know what I’m thinking, Governor Cuomo.
    Third, how wonderful your world must be, knowing that your viewpoint is the only valid one. Someone disagrees? Throw ’em out! Screw the First Amendment; you’ve already screwed the Second, so what’s one more?
    I have news for you, Governor. Some in New York are right to life. Some are anti-gay. (It’s an stupid thing to be, but so is being a hippie, and there’s lots of those here too.) New Yorkers are pro-2A, LOTS of them. Keep it up, and we may decide YOU’RE the one who needs to leave.

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  11. Do you really think this was the first time Einstein tried this. I bet he had tried it at least once before. Also bet his friends encouraged him when he first uttered the famous word of stupidity “hay watch this”.

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  12. Up here in Canada, when the long gun registry was instituted, sales of pvc pipes, end caps and cosmoline went way up. When the long gun registry was abolished, suddenly all sorts of rifles just magically sort of appeared again.

    It took a long time for the forces up here to organize to make changes. It will take a similarly long time and effort in CT, but if we can do it, you can do it, too.

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  13. Pat Buchanan has a gift with words. Recently, he floated an analogy that has helped me to define my own life purpose in politics:

    “And Tea Partiers now play the role of Red Army commissars who sat at machine guns behind their own troops to shoot down any soldier who retreated or ran. Republicans who sign on to tax hikes, amnesty or favor attacking the 2nd amendment cannot go home again.”

    The same must be true of immigration restriction Protection of the 2nd Amendment—and all the other political issues conservatives care about.

    We are called to man the machine guns behind our own lines because our cohesiveness as a group, like the Soviets, must be coerced.
    Our enemies enjoy the luxury of an ideologically unified and cohesive political army. Ours, however, is a lot bigger, but a lot clumsier.

    Hopefully, the weight of numbers will play out in American and Texas politics the same way it did on the Eastern Front.

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  14. After the bans in UK and AUS, only a minority percentage of the estimated firearms which existed in both places were surrendered. All in all that would make such bans a “failure”.

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