UK Artist to Filmmakers: Show A Gun, Destroy a Gun (Scorsese’s In!)

By Robert Farago

“British artist Carl McCrow is asking the world’s most successful filmmakers to make an unambiguous pledge: For every gun that appears in their movies, he wants them to destroy a real one,” nbcnews.com reports. “His first taker? “Tomorrow,” a film executive produced by Oscar winner Martin Scorsese that will be released later this year and follows soldiers trying to reintegrate into society after returning from combat.” Yes, you’re right. This is the dumbest anti-gun agitprop ever conceived. Which is kinda cool. You know; if McCrow is goofing on the anti-gunners. And you know what? He just might be. Check this out . . .

“The simple fact is that there are too many guns and they ruin people’s lives every day,” McCrow told NBC News. “Long after these wars are over, these guns can keep working for decades. That’s a lot of people they can potentially kill in that time.”

OK, maybe not that bit. Try this instead:

“I hate hypocrites, but then I think, ‘God you’re one of the biggest of them,” he said. “Recognizing that most of us have a conflicted relationship with guns was the first step for me.”

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Source:: Truth About Guns