Creative Freedom And Gun Control

By Tom Knighton

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Earlier this week, a group of citizens opted to write a letter to try and push Warner Brothers to endorse gun control. The reason, Warner Brothers’ new movie, “The Joker,” the fictional Batman villain.

This is, of course, the same villain the Aurora, CO theater shooter dressed up as, which is all the reason the letter-writers apparently needed to decide to try and pressure the studio. That is, of course, assuming they really even needed a reason.

However, as an op-ed at the Washington Examiner notes, it’s an attack on creative freedom.

Sadly, as my colleague Madeline Fry documents documents, four families are agitating against the upcoming movie, Joker. An origin story following Batman’s nemesis, the movie stars Joaquin Phoenix.

As the BBC notes, the families — who all lost loved ones in the Aurora, Colorado, shooting at a showing of The Dark Knight Rises — are demanding that Warner Bros. “lobby for gun reform, help fund survivor funds and gun violence intervention schemes, and end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA.” One of the signatories, Sandy Phillips, explained to the BBC why …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms