{"id":36188,"date":"2013-05-06T06:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36188"},"modified":"2013-05-06T06:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:07:55","slug":"unintended-hypocritical-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36188","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Hypocritical Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time we focus on the real victims here.<\/p>\n

Hollywood, after donating millions to get Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo into office, is bitching about the scope of New York’s gun grab law<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The sweeping gun control measure signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and hailed by Democratic leaders has a surprising critic: Hollywood.<\/p>\n

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Officials in the movie and television industry say the new laws could prevent them from using the lifelike assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that they have employed in shows like \u201cLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit\u201d and films like \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some reason, Hollywood likes to use\u00a0real\u00a0<\/em>firearms when they make their movies glorifying violence (or at least minimizing its consquences:<\/p>\n

Industry workers say that they need to use real weapons for verisimilitude, that it would be impractical to try to manufacture fake weapons that could fire blanks, and that the entertainment industry should not be penalized accidentally by a law intended as a response to mass shootings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Impractical to manufacture?<\/p>\n

Tell it to those peddlers on 23rd Street with the “Rolexes”. \u00a0I’ll bet they can hook you up with a fake SIG 551 right quick.<\/p>\n

Andrew Cuomo, of course, is angering people who supported him\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0generously:<\/p>\n

Mr. Cuomo has gone out of his way to promote the industry\u2019s success; on Monday, he issued one news release to say the state was on track to break its record for the number of television pilots shot in a year, and another to say that \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man 2\u201d would begin production this week in Rochester. The governor has also enjoyed political support from Hollywood: his sole out-of-state fund-raiser as governor was held at the Los Angeles home of an HBO executive.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s the beauty of it all; Cuomo may have cried wolf once too often:<\/p>\n

\u00a0But some lawmakers, feeling stung by conservative and upstate voters over the gun control law, do not wish to vote on it again, even to make what the industry describes as a technical correction. Gun rights activists, who are challenging the new firearm restrictions in court, have mocked the idea of a so-called Hollywood exception.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018Why are we being held to this standard when Hollywood is getting a pass, and they\u2019re the ones who are promoting the violence?\u2019 \u201d said Thomas H. King, the president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 The new laws expand New York\u2019s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and beginning next January, they will prohibit the possession of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s gonna be hard to keep Mariska Hargitay looking all sleek and fashionable if they have to switch from a Glock to a Colt 1911 or a Ruger Redhawk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time we focus on the real victims here. Hollywood, after donating millions to get Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo into office, is bitching about the scope of New York’s gun grab law: The sweeping gun control measure signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and hailed by Democratic leaders has a surprising critic: Hollywood.   Officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36191,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36188\/revisions\/36191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}