Monday, May 08, 2006

Liberty Stands Still

Hollywood is such a great moral teacher. When I see one of their great movies, I like to reflect on the lessons I have learned. After watching "Liberty Stands Still" I have learned several things:

1. It is okay to murder people using gun violence if your goal is to eliminate gun violence.
2. Teaching kids to use guns responsibly causes them to shoot other kids at school.
3. If someone you love is killed by guns, it's okay to use a gun to kill any number of people in revenge, whether or not they had anything to do with it.
4. Republicans are so stupid. They name their kids things like "Liberty", they own companies that manufacture guns, and they blow their own brains out with guns.
5. Manufacturing guns and international arms dealing are pretty much the same thing.
6. Either the Constitution doesn't guarantee private gun ownership, or if it does then the Constitution is completely wrong on the issue. It doesn't matter which.
7. If a Senator is against gun control, you can kill his son and cause him to instantly change his mind and want to ban all guns.
8. NRA evil. NRA evil. NRA evil.
9. The government is corrupt. (Actually, I already knew that one.)

Hollywood hates guns. So they have made a movie where a sniper is the hero. It takes so much depth to be able to pull that off. It could come across as shallow and hypocritical.

Please, do not fail to miss this movie.