You can always count on controversy from a Super Bowl broadcast, and while Beyonce’s clothes stayed in place on Sunday night, the show didn’t disappoint. We just had to wait until the end, after the Ravens won, when the cameras caught quarterback Joe Flacco running onto the field and saying a bad word. (In his defense, winning the Super Bowl probably does feel bleeping awesome.)
The Parents Television Council was swiftly on the case, urging retribution against CBS. The group was living up to its reputation. Founded by conservative activist Brent Bozell, the group is best known for flooding the FCC with indecency complaints, fueling the Janet Jackson wardrobe-malfunction controversy at a Super Bowl many moons ago.
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Did you never hear the phrase "useful idiot?". That's all you would be to a grotesque group like the PTC . The enemy of your enemy is not automatically your frend.
We are a violent people and have not really changed for a thousand years. We like guns, knives, and implements of torture and we want to see them in action. It's as simple as that and it WILL not change. The truth hurts but just go to your bunker/safe room, clean your guns, and watch reruns of Dexter to make yourself feel either worse or better depending on your perspective! Cheers!
You are partially right. There are violent people out there who cannot control themselves. They will use whatever weapon they have at hand to perpetrate whatever evil they happen to have in mind. Theft, rape, murder, etc. Your assumption that everyone else who arms themselves in defense against those evil doers likes those guns is inaccurate at best.
Stephen King's article on guns tells a hidden truth, and that is that Americans are NOT obsesses with violence. That is simply a lie, and as George Orwell said, if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes confused with the truth. Americans are obsessed with reality TV shows, sports, and food. I would argue that the problem with TV is not that it's too violent, is that it's not violent ENOUGH. We in the US like our "violence" sanitary. Someone gets shot, and they either quickly and quietly die... off screen.
You want to make a difference? Buy advertising time and put 30 seconds of the scene in Newtown. Show everyone what gun violence does. Show it all the time. You'd see an outrage like you'd never seen before. Plaster the world with images of the Newtown massacre. People complain that kids can see it? Too bad -- the NRA wants kids to get guns at an early age, so they should know the results at an early age.
s67, another one who wants to blame the NRA for Sandy Hook. There has been absolutely no connection between the NRA and the mass shootings. Any of those killers members? If they were, the media would be howling to high heaven.
Millions of kids have started shooting at young ages without turning into murderers.
Stephen King, now there is an expert if ever there was one, a person who makes his living by terrifying people. Seems he has a lot in common with people who kill, like enjoying terrifying others. Of course, those who love him as an author, also sit in front of their TV's watching for every little detail they can glean about a sicko like Lanza.
Sounds to me like you would like to see the gory details of Sandy Hook.
I stand by what I said earlier. I know a lot of gun owners and, while most of them hunt, there is a kind of fascination with what a gun could do to a person if they had to use it. The NRA never wants to think that we are ALL capable of losing it for a moment and then using our personal arsenal to "deal" with our problems! We are generally violent - we like to see fake violence - and we imagine that the sanitized fake violence is "real" enough to show us what we can accomplish with our personal arsenals.
More blather. Now he is stating that he knows what the "NRA" thinks. Then blathers on about how we are ALL capable of losing it, then how we would all use our personal "arsenals" to deal with our problems. The real truth is that it RARELY happens. 80 MILLION gun owners, lots of "problems" occur everyday, extremely rarely are they dealt with by using personal "arsenals".
More anti gun scare tactics. We are all just a moment away from going postal. I call BS on this theory.