Guns

[poliphilo]

Maybe if the entertainment industry rowed back a bit on the idea that guns are cool.

You know, fewer spectacular shootouts, fewer scenes where the hero cop or whoever edges down a corridor with gun held out as if it were a natural extension of the human body.

Maybe the odd scenario in which the person with the gun is made to look a bit of a prat.

It needs to start somewhere.

And it's not just an American problem. A few weeks back the Russians unveiled a statue of the guy who designed and gave his name to the Kalashnikov...  

Comments

[cmcmck]

And didn't mentioned that Kalashnikov spent the last years of his life in a maelstrom of guilt over the monster he'd created........

[poliphilo]

Is that right?

I'm not surprised. If the statue had shown him as a tortured soul it would have served a better purpose.