{"id":5194,"date":"2018-11-18T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2018-11-18T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:37:59","slug":"halloween-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/halloween-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"HALLOWEEN HYPOCRISY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not the holiday. The movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m late to\nthe party: the movie \u201cHalloween\u201d was released weeks ago, an update of the\noriginal from 1978, featuring a silent, hard-to-kill mass murderer. It was one\nof the flicks that established the so-called \u201cslasher\u201d genre of suspense\nthrillers.  I\u2019d heard that at least one\ncritic panned it as a wet dream for us Second Amendment types because it ended\nwith strong, armed women prevailing against the murderer.  The Evil Princess and I recently caught it in\na theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role as the psycho killer\u2019s favorite victim some 40 years after the first movie, was outed for using guns in the new movie when she herself has been a vigorous proponent of \u201cgun control\u201d and banning semiautomatic rifles\u2026you know, AR15s like any sane person being stalked by a human monster would want; AR15s like the cops would bring when you called 911while under attack by such a monster.\u00a0Fox News calls her out here.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Curtis responded to Fox here,<\/a> in a rather self-contradictory fashion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2026M\u2026G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Curtisapparently made a point of using old school<\/g> guns so she wouldn\u2019t have to soil her hands with an evil \u201cassault weapon.\u201d\u00a0She wields at various times an 1873 Winchester lever action, or clone thereof; a bolt action hunting rifle; a pump shotgun (looked like a Mossberg 500); and a double action Smith & Wesson six-shooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shotgun has an extended magazine and pistol grip only in lieu of conventional stock. clone thereof if she realizes that both are listed as evil \u201cassault weapon features\u201d in many of the gun ban schemes she outspokenly supports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s also in favor of mandatory training for gun ownership.\u00a0 Wonder how much of that she has herself.\u00a0 Her handling of the revolver was OK, and she competently kept the Winchester at her shoulder when she worked the lever, but in one brief scene<\/g> she holds the rear end of that shotgun barely in front of her face. If she fired it that way with a real 12-gauge round in the chamber, she\u2019d be picking her teeth off the ground.\u00a0When she searches for the killer she always has her gun extended out infront<\/g> of her as she turns corners into unknown spaces, which in real life is aplea<\/g> for your antagonist to disarm you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story line<\/g> is that she has spent 40 years preparing to face and kill serial murderer Michael Myers, and turned herself into a paranoid nutcase while doing so.\u00a0 Yet the denouement goes down at her remote home, where she doesn\u2019t activate her security devices when he catches her inside,<\/g> and doesn\u2019t have a motion detector to trigger the gigantic security lights on her roof.\u00a0 Speaking of security, she also has glass in her door panels.\u00a0 At<\/g> the end, after she and her daughter and granddaughter have dropped the bad guy, Jamie Lee incinerates him by intentionally blowing up her own home in a giant fireball. Perhaps that\u2019s her idea of the \u201ccommon sense\u201d she wants to be applied to us real world<\/g> gun owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry, Ms.Curtis.\u00a0 Your movie ended with a meaningful message: strong women using weapons to defeat a seemingly undefeatable violent criminal.\u00a0 You yourself acted out the reality, and yet you still propound laws which, bydefinition<\/g>, only the harmless law-abiding citizens will obey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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