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Teh One Who Knocks
02-06-2013, 06:07 PM
by Alexis L. Loinaz - E! Online


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Bruce Willis is no stranger to shoot-'em-up action flicks, and he's now pulling the trigger on his stance in a highly charged debate: gun control.

In a move that will likely surprise few people, the Die Hard star says he's staunchly opposed to new gun-control laws, discounting a perceived theory that violent films influence real-life shoot-outs while warning against the potential erosion of civil rights that such laws may engender.

"No one commits a crime because they saw a film," the 57-year-old star said in a recent published interview. "There's nothing to support that. We're not making movies about people that have gone berserk, or gone nuts. Those kind of movies wouldn't last very long at all."

The star said he remains deeply empathetic toward families of victims of horrific mass shootings in the wake of tragedies like the one in Newtown.

"It's a difficult thing and I really feel bad for those families," he explained. "I'm a father and it's just a tragedy."

But he also contended that exploring stricter gun-control laws poses a slippery slope for legislators looking to curb violent behavior. "I don't know how you legislate insanity," he wondered. "I don't know what you do about it."

The debate over gun control—and the connection between onscreen and real-life violence, invariably—has fired up renewed and vigorous dialogue within Hollywood, with outspoken celebs weighing in en masse on Twitter and on talk shows.

Willis, however, remains wary that new gun-ownership policies could pose a bigger threat to civil liberties.

"I think that you can't start to pick apart anything out of the Bill of Rights without thinking that it's all going to become undone," he said.

Willis' latest entry in his Die Hard saga, A Good Day to Die Hard, his theaters on Feb. 14. He also has two other action films, both of which will likely feature heavy gunplay, coming down the pike later this year: Red 2 and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

PorkChopSandwiches
02-06-2013, 06:10 PM
:tup:

RBP
02-06-2013, 06:13 PM
yup.

FBD
02-06-2013, 06:31 PM
Maybe they need to start making movies about what's really going on, then. Politicians selling the country off to the bankers. Write up legislation to protect the biggest companies and provide huge barriers to new entry in business. Government redistributing so much of the country's perceived wealth that the fundamentals of the wealth begin to falter and produce bad circumstances that the government just tries to paper over and get everyone to ignore, and are helped out vociferously by the lapdog media. Adderall riddled kids having their parents be involved in the destruction of society's pillars. Getting the story from parents. Illustrate the drain on humanity experienced by having a chemical fuck with your neurotransmitters to the point where you dont feel any emotions at all any longer. Stealing guns because somebody's got to do something, society is crazy, now let's shoot someplace up.

To make it interesting, have it happen simultaneously in a couple different spots.

And they should also write in an appropriate response - good guns on site, crazy kids get shot the fug up for being crazy. Innocents protected.

and the other defense free places get mass murder.


nah, that'd be a lil too realistic.

Acid Trip
02-06-2013, 08:27 PM
Maybe they need to start making movies about what's really going on, then. Politicians selling the country off to the bankers. Write up legislation to protect the biggest companies and provide huge barriers to new entry in business. Government redistributing so much of the country's perceived wealth that the fundamentals of the wealth begin to falter and produce bad circumstances that the government just tries to paper over and get everyone to ignore, and are helped out vociferously by the lapdog media. Adderall riddled kids having their parents be involved in the destruction of society's pillars. Getting the story from parents. Illustrate the drain on humanity experienced by having a chemical fuck with your neurotransmitters to the point where you dont feel any emotions at all any longer. Stealing guns because somebody's got to do something, society is crazy, now let's shoot someplace up.

To make it interesting, have it happen simultaneously in a couple different spots.

And they should also write in an appropriate response - good guns on site, crazy kids get shot the fug up for being crazy. Innocents protected.

and the other defense free places get mass murder.


nah, that'd be a lil too realistic.

If you want realistic just wait until the house of cards finally comes crashing down. It'll be realism on steroids.

FBD
02-06-2013, 08:48 PM
I'd quite prefer the movie. Would rather not have the real life trainwreck that the data tells me is pretty much inevitable.