Who better to lecture us on “gun safety” than Hollywood? Just ask Alec Baldwin…
“This approach of utilizing the entertainment industry to model safe practices is one of the successes of ‘Show Gun Safety,’ a campaign launched by the advocacy group Brady United, which is now partnering with television studios across the country,” a one-sided CNN publicity piece masked as news promotes.
“Real reporters”/PR hacks Josh Campbell and Jason Kravarik are gushing enthusiastically over actor Shamar Moore, whose “SWAT” character locks his gun up at the end of his shift, because apparently, you never need to defend yourself if you’re at home, especially if you’re a trained operator. While it’s not clear if “badass” Officer “Hondo” Harrelson takes the extra step of locking his gun and ammunition up separately, as the gun prohibitionists chide mere “civilians” to do, it is interesting that the grabbers have no problem with “Only Ones” being armed, and this is Moore’s second TV role as someone deemed trustworthy and responsible enough to carry a gun (before taking his current role he played an FBI agent on “Criminal Minds”).
It would also be interesting to determine how many real cops comply with a “one size fits all” approach, and how many are aware that off-duty police storing their guns in “standalone rooms” at the station is a real thing in other countries. Those who expect gun owners to “back the blue” would do well to realize that the only thing stopping the “Defund the Police” crowd from demanding after work disarmament here is the Second Amendment that so many of them are quick to infringe on when given orders to follow.
By David Codrea
