As our Hollywood celebrity set is revealed to be a growing inconsequential political faction they continue to hector and lecture as if they are socially relevant. Undeterred by the fact their overwhelming support of Hillary Clinton helped contribute to her defeat, the luminary Illuminati continue to offer up their unbidden opinions.
Since the election the famous have led the #Resistence — leading to zero change. They have loudly backed the Women’s March — and their donning of vagina hats has provoked for more laughter than change. Celebrities have blatantly supported the latest wave of gun debate following the Parkland school shooting — the result has been increased gun sales and membership to the NRA spiking.
This has led to a crowd of celebrities addressing that particular result, all while remaining oblivious they were the inspiration behind this wave of pro-gun support. The formation of The NoRA Initiative is meant to be a direct salvo against the NRA. By way of introduction this outfit has crafted an open letter to NRA President Wayne LaPierre, and it is a marvel of ignorance and misinformation, all delivered in a demeaning and angry tone.
This letter — signed by a lengthy list of actors, performers, and dozens of other deeply important people — wastes no time in being an easily disregarded missive of mirth. It begins by addressing the Columbine High School shooting, and our celebrities fall on their collective faces by sentence Two. “Three of the four guns used in the shooting were legally in the possession of the shooters.”
Uh, no. Sorry, Hollywood gun experts, but the two killers at Columbine — Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold — were below the age to “legally” own their firearms. The guns were purchased by another individual, and despite the claim by NoRA, the straw purchase for underage individuals was illegal.
The letter then mentions the NRA held its convention in Denver weeks later. This is another wild inaccuracy. Rather than marching in behind the tragedy, the convention had long been planned for Denver and following the shooting then President Charlton Heston canceled most of the event activities, save for his legally mandated annual speech. This was done out of respect of the victims. Then NoRA engages in more sophistry.
It offers up a quote from LaPierre delivered in 1999: “You insisted that your organization believes in ‘absolutely gun free’ schools. You lied.” This is a very selectively-pulled quote, absent full context. What LaPierre referenced was preventing students from bringing guns into a school campus, and he noted the lax enforcement contributing to the problem. It is telling that groups like NoRA, and Everytown run just three words, as they feel the need to truncate his full quote. This is LaPierre’s full quote, as he continued:
Of the 6,000 young people the president acknowledges were caught with a gun at school during the past two years, we believe all of them should have been prosecuted. But the truth is only five were prosecuted in 1997. And just eight were prosecuted in 1988. That’s not zero tolerance.
The letter later states the NRA fights for Stand Your Ground Laws that, as they wrongfully claim, “allowed Trayvon Martin’s killer to go free.” This is patently a lie. SYG was not invoked by George Zimmerman’s defense team. It’s notable however this crowd seems to feel that anyone defending oneself from an attack is considered unseemly.
But let’s look at the overriding claims being made by this group of entertainment dignitaries. When it comes to the NRA they charge numerous social effrontery:
- The NRA promotes gun use
- The NRA profits from guns
- The NRA fetishizes and glorifies gun violence
Now, as a visual aid to put the stance into perspective of the notable members from the list of signatories, look at how dedicated to the anti-gun cause they appear to be professionally.
Alec Baldwin
Don Cheadle
Jennifer Esposito
John Favreau
Nathon Fillion
Piper Perabo
Patton Oswalt
Alyssa Milano
Julianne Moore
Debra Messing
Ashley Judd
Sure, it could be a bit of brevity to merely show some notables brandishing weapons. But this is more than merely illustrating hypocrisy. Consider the charges being made by this group, then look over their profession in the same light.
Please explain, how an industry that features and promotes content with weaponry can turn around and accuse a Constitutional organization of being evil for promoting weaponry? How can studios accuse the NRA of profiting off of violence as studios reap profits from ticket sales to movies displaying gun violence on screen? How do they demonize a group of fetishizing guns, when some of their films are so laden with lead delivery they get described as “gun porn”???
Hollywood loves guns. They feature guns with such fanaticism as to be considered unhealthy, according to their own accusations. If they expect anyone to take their claim to desire an end to gun violence in this country seriously they should begin with their own industry.
This will never happen, however. As they lecture that anyone profiting from guns is inherently evil, they cannot cut off their gun profit stream. Celebrities are perfectly entitled to have armed security usher them to movie sets because they need to make it on time and make millions firing their weapons.
You and I meanwhile are considered vile for buying into the very message that they display with wanton glee on screens across the country.
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