Victim Disarmament Update - Citizens

Victim Disarmament Update - Citizens for a Supine Safer Minnesota is flogging a new, explicitly anti-gun movie, a movie called The American Gun which, tragically (and hypcritically) was James Coburn's final acting role.

CSSM's website is...deluded.

: "As much as we Americans cling to the belief that gun violence is caused by criminals, in fact, most gun death and injury in our country is due to 1) suicide and 2) homicide between people who know each other. AMERICAN GUN illustrates the many aspects of gun violence, portraying the reality that few of us understand.

Including, apparently, CSSM, as we'll see below.

Nearly one third of gun owners in Minnesota keep their firearm for 'protection.' Yet a gun in the home is 22-times more likely to be used against a friend or family member than against an intruder.

Which is, of course, taken from a study that considered all gun owners' acquaintances equally, whether they were friends, abusive ex-spouses, drug dealers or customers (they are, indeed, acquaintances!) or anything else.

James Coburn's character in AMERICAN GUN exemplifies the culture of fear that drives Americans to keep guns, but also the ambivalence we feel about the role of guns in our society.

Hm. Any bets on whether he plays someone with realistic personal views of the world around him?

Any action on that bet?

All guns used in crime start as legal guns.

Right. And everyone who joins the Klan is born a perfect egalitarian.

The gun is not the problem. The owner - whether a clueless, untrained moron who improperly stores his/her weapon, or a criminal, or someone who shoots a rapist in self-defense for that matter - is what makes the difference.

Weapons flow from person to person in an unregulated secondary market through personal sales, street purchases, gun shows and even theft.

Even theft. Heh.

Join CSM for a Sneak Preview of AMERICAN GUN, Tuesday, November 4th.

My only regret? That I missed the preview, and was unable to...:

Join writer/director Alan Jacobs in a sneak preview of his new film, AMERICAN GUN starring James Coburn in his final role. Meet AMERICAN GUN co-star and Minnesota native Alexandra Holden at the reception before the screening.

Oh, that might have been fun.

Wonder if the security guards who would have ushered me out would have been unarmed?

Posted by Mitch at November 6, 2003 06:04 AM