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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This article is a pile of crap. I
don't know what caused the reversal of the home protection vs.
hunting numbers quoted in the article, but I suspect it had
nothing to do with the gun violence in "Die Hard" or "Death Wish",
or his more generalized "potency restored through guns!"
hypothesis. Perhaps hunting as a pasttime is in decline? Maybe
9/11 had something to do with it? Who knows?<br>
<br>
I can't speak for all the Bruce Willis fans who bought their guns
in order to hide out in skyscrapers hoping against hope that some
thieves will try to break in so they can restore their sex lives,
but I look forward to using a handgun in an act of defense about
as much as I look forward to using those airbags my car came
equipped with.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
On 03/31/2013 08:05 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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<h1 style="font-size: 36px; font-family: Arial; margin: 0px;
letter-spacing: -1px; word-spacing: -0.05em;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Edelstein on "Olympus Has
Fallen" and movie violence</h1>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Last week I endured the red-meat
blockbuster "Olympus Has Fallen," and thought about
violence. Now, I don't buy the idea there's a direct
correlation between violence on-screen and in life. But I do
worry about movie-fueled myths that make people say, "I <i>need</i> a
gun!"</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The myths have two parts.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">First, violation: men rendered
impotent, women imperiled.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Then, retaliation: potency
restored!</span></p>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">In
movies, it goes back to 1915, and D.W. Griffith's wildly
racist "Birth of a Nation" -- the government corrupt, the
women assaulted by scary blacks, the Klan riding to reclaim
white supremacy.</span>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Skipping to 1974, there's "Death
Wish": Charles Bronson, the civilized man whose wife is
murdered and daughter raped, who becomes a vigilante, a lone
hunter in an urban jungle.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">1988, a new template: "Die Hard,"
Bruce Willis as a New York cop robbed of stature in La-La
Land, his wife using her maiden name (<i>Horrors!</i>).
Foreign terrorists attack. The government spurns him. But
the cowboy conquers the alien, wins back his woman.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">So does Gerard Butler, Secret
Service hero of "Olympus Has Fallen." When we meet him, he's
dishonored -- he saved the president but lost the first
lady. Then, a North Korean terrorist takes over the White
House with an army of Asians, Middle Easterners -- darker
people. He must win his (and America's) manhood back.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">"Olympus Has Fallen" has a hundred
times the carnage of "Die Hard," and a tenth the style. But
it hits its marks. It makes you sick over the threat to
American might.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2718-207_162-1158/movies/"
style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><font
color="#000000">Complete CBSNews.com coverage: Movies -
News, reviews, videos and galleries</font></a></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Which brings me to a new Pew
Research Center survey: 48 percent of gun owners said they
owned a gun for protection, versus 32 percent for hunting --
the reverse of 1999, when 49 percent bought guns for
hunting, 26 percent for protection.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">We're obsessed with being
attacked.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">I'm not saying we <i>don't</i> face
threats. I <i>am</i> suggesting many people (primarily men)
expend a disproportionate amount of energy on scenarios
designed by Hollywood to inflame their inner gunslinger --
to make them addicts waiting for the next violation, a
chance to exact vengeance. The next boneheaded action flick.
The next bloody fix.</span></p>
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<div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div>
<div><br>
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<div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants
on)</div>
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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<div>"<span style="font-size: medium;
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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling
you still</span><span style="font-size: medium;
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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
180, 0.230469); "> </span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color:
rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);
-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you
kill </span><br style="font-size: medium;
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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
180, 0.230469); ">
<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color:
rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);
-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div>
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rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);
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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br>
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