Does their “cultural influence” include not making violent movies anymore? I highly doubt it.
Julianne Moore and her creative side
Huffington Post: Julianne Moore has joined forces with Everytown for Gun Safety to launch the Everytown Creative Council in support of preventing gun violence.
Moore spoke to People magazine about the new council, which is currently made up of 79 members of the creative community including Aziz Ansari, Kim Kardashian, Judd Apatow and Ellen DeGeneres (as well as Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Lawrence). According to a press release, the group will use its “cultural influence to support common-sense solutions proven to save lives from the gun violence that claims 88 American lives every day and injures hundreds more.”
Alec Baldwin and his creative side
The actress explained that her motivation to get involved in the gun safety discussion stemmed from the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. “I remember my daughter came to work with me that day. I was doing a movie in Queens and when we got into the van, I actually said to the driver, ‘Turn the radio off,'” Moore told People. “She was young, so the whole day, I kept the TV and the radio off.”
Later that same night, after looking at her phone, the actress’ daughter asked her if kids were shot. “I was like, ‘I’ve had it.’ I said to my husband, [director Bart Freundlich], ‘I’ve got to do something. This is the one thing that I need to say something about. This is my responsibility as a parent.” (So she says three years later.)
Moore hopes that with the help of the council, she can help create awareness for change. A note on the website reads, “We believe the creative community has an opportunity to use our communications skills and the power of culture to galvanize many more Americans in the gun violence prevention movement.”
Moore also noted in a press release that the council is not meant to fight against the 2nd Amendment. “We do not believe that the 2nd Amendment and gun safety are mutually exclusive ideas, and as a creative community, we will do everything we can to support the safety of our fellow Americans, and galvanize more to join us in this movement.”
Jennifer Lawrence and her creative side
From the People article:
“As actors, we are citizens first so we believe in the Constitution and the Second Amendment,” Moore says. “But 92 percent of the people in the United States are in favor of background checks, too, so I don’t feel like I’m in the minority. I definitely feel like I’m in the majority here.”
The actress equates gun safety with strives that have been made in the automobile industry as well. “For cars, you have to have training and you have to have a license, and you wear seat belts and we have airbags and we have all of these things in place that have reduced fatalities unbelievably,” Moore says. “And it was a totally unregulated industry at first. I feel like something that is very sensible and straight forward can be done also with guns.”
“I know people who own guns who have a gun safe because they have children in their house. These are responsible people. By talking about it, we can admit it’s a problem and we can admit that we want to work together to solve it.”
I’m all for firearm training and safety – any responsible gun owner is. And many states require training before you can obtain your conceal carry license (I had to take a class here in Oklahoma).
I need to take Ms. Moore to task on her “you have to have a license” for cars comparison: Driving is not a right, it is a privilege that one must quality for in the form of a license. But nice try at muddying the message.
See also:
- Flaming liberals’ movie “Freeheld” is tanking after two weeks
- Oscar nominee Julianne Moore is a gun-control pro-abortion atheist
- “Electing people who will take care of us”
- HBO blatantly lies…
DCG
P.S. If Ms. Moore believes that more gun regulation is the answer, she should look at Chiraq and get back to us with some better ideas.
