I’ve been told I live in a MAGA bubble. If I wasn’t brainwashed by FauxNews and actually cared about others, I would no longer be a Maggot.
The reality is that I can’t escape their noise and opinions. It is everywhere.
Ally and I noticed a while ago that every cop show on TV talks about “legally registered guns.” Every single one of them. NCIS was horrible about this. Law and Order had the excuse that it was taking place in NYC where all “legal” guns are supposed to be registered.
Though an egregious one popped up recently. The detectives of L&O were investigating a “sniper.” They tracked the gun back to the FFL that sold the gun.
They then accused the FFL of attempting to hide the identity of the purchaser because the signature on the 4473 was illegible. They made a big deal about it.
Every 4473 that I’ve ever filled out requires me to fill out the form with my printed information and the FFL then copies my government ID information (DL) onto the form. If the left didn’t lie they wouldn’t have anything to say.
The Question
What is a trope or common “everybody knows” that you see in movies or shows that is pure left-wing talking points?
pretty much EVERYTHING on tv is liberal bullshiite.. thats why they call it “programming”… YOU are being programmed..
I haven’t watched tv in decades.
“he used a semiautomatic with high capacity magazines “… 🤢🤮
I like how the guy looks at the empty shell casing and says “hes using a Glock”… or the Die Hard at the airport-“those are Glock 7s. a porcelain gun! it doesn’t show up on airport metal detectors! “… barf..
That line in “Die Hard 2” always bugged me, even as a young guy who didn’t know anything about guns. It certainly sounds scary, but my mind always thought, “Is the barrel really porcelain or ceramic? And any mechanical movement is going to need springs, so are the springs porcelain/ceramic, too? That doesn’t make sense!”
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Even someone who didn’t know a lick about how guns work could sum up enough logic and critical thinking to decide that line was B.S.
yup. it came from when the Glock was first introduced as a PLASTIC handgun and all the network “news” jumped on it saying it wouldn’t show up on metal detectors OR Xrays.. even when gun magazines published photos of a glock in an airport xray machine proving it showed up as a GUN… hollywierd never gets anything with firearms right, niether does the “news”…
“We’re doing something illegal but we’re the good guys, so it’s okay.”
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That’s another one that’s everywhere on cop shows, and NCIS was particularly bad about it – illegal searches, violation of various constitutional rights, etc., with zero admission of it being wrong, let alone suffering from any consequences. The NCIS teams should have been in jail after half of their standard things per episode. Gibbs in particular.
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At least Harold and John in Person of Interest (we’re rewatching now) freely admit that they were acting illegally … and they make an attempt at least to insulate their police friends from the sources and methods they use. (Usually unsuccessfully … but at least they try…)
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Then there’s the whole “90-lb slip of a girl can take down a 250-lb MMA fighter one-on-one bare-handed” and usually without breaking a nail or a sweat. The requisite suspension-of-disbelief magnitude got to be just to much for me in NCIS-LA with the Muslim lady agent.
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Okay, last one. Glocks are super high end firearms. Another one from NCISland (LA maybe?), ladyboss shows up with two bog-standard Glocks in a beautiful velvet-lined hardwood presentation case for a shooting session somewhere. (Maybe a charity event?) I mean, come on. Glocks are fine guns, but they are mass-produced. You’re free to like them and customize yours out the wazoo … but parking a Ford Escort in Jay Leno’s garage doesn’t change it into something special. (Unless it was one of the rally versions to begin with. But I digress.)
The NCIS teams should have been in jail after half of their standard things per episode. Gibbs in particular.
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Don’t forget Abby. Little to do with guns, but she is pure science fiction, and would fit in better in a Star Trek crew, stationed in a lab on the U.S.S. Make-Sh!t-Up. Half her experiments and fact-finding endeavors are novelties invented on the spot — not standard or proven practices — with no control samples, often damaging or destroying the actual evidence, and would never stand up in a peer-reviewed scientific paper, let alone a courtroom. (Among other things, especially if the original evidence is damaged or destroyed, her results cannot be confirmed, repeated, or refuted.)
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Garcia from Criminal Minds, too; 90% of her computer work should violate domestic and international law — NOBODY should have that level of access into EVERYTHING.
One is referring to AR-15s as “high powered rifles”.
Another is the fact that ordinary citizens are always defenseless, none of them ever carry.
And how cops always rush to the scene of any violence and do everything necessary to save and protect as many people as possible.
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And how they always have two officers available to sit in a car outside the home of anyone who asks for protection.
The standard – armed citizen won’t be able to shoot when needed, followed by the ‘bad guy will just take it away’, followed by the ‘armed guy is itching to shoot someone – and does or tries to shoot the innocent person’.
Then there’s the ‘all hetero men are stupid and clueless’ trope.
I’ve been told I live in a MAGA bubble. If I wasn’t brainwashed by FauxNews and actually cared about others, I would no longer be a Maggot.
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On the flip-side, they all live in Leftist bubbles, if they weren’t brainwashed by CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC and had actually been mugged, they’d no longer be “Progressive”. (Using the old, “A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.”)
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Or, as someone else put it (George Carlin, I think?): If you’re under 30 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you’re over 30 and not a conservative, you have no brain.
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RE: False TV/pop-culture gun narratives: The “legally registered” (or worse, “licensed”) one is a big one, as is the “high-powered” semi-automatic “assault rifle”. (Or “high-powered sniper rifle” that turns out to be a scoped, bolt-action rifle in some caliber between .223 and .30 — IOW, a perfectly normal small-to-medium game rifle.)
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I remember an episode of L&O:SVU — and I’m going purely off memory here, so if I’m wrong, I’m wrong — in which a prior victim of SA decided to arm herself and get a license to carry, and was showing off her pistol to Det. Benson. It was a .50-cal Desert Eagle with an “extended 8-round magazine”, and Det. Benson described it as a pocket assault rifle — strongly implying that it’s “too large and powerful” — and told her that the extended magazine was illegal in NY, to which the lady ejected it and handed it over.
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SO MUCH wrong with this scene:
– “Extended” is somewhat a misnomer, as “standard” mags for that gun hold 7, so one extra round isn’t a huge difference.
– This episode predated the SAFE Act by a bunch of years, so magazines up to 10 rounds were still legal for ANY gun.
– Even post-SAFE Act, with amendments the 8-round magazine is still legal; it just can’t be loaded with more than seven.
– If the magazine was actually illegal, ejecting it and handing it over to a cop is a better way to waive one’s 5th Amendment rights and be arrested for illegal possession than to be rid of the contraband item.
– I don’t recall if the script differentiated between “license to own” and “license to carry”, but NY law certainly does, and even when this episode was filmed and aired licenses to carry were VERY hard to get.
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Hollywood has a well-deserved reputation that — where they aren’t completely clueless and getting everything wrong — they’re explicitly or implicitly promoting an agenda of what they want to see.
I have always been impressed with the people, especially the CSI crowd, who can tell the difference between a wound from a .36 ball, .380 ball, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, 9mm and 10mm at a glance with no bullet or brass. And THEN they get 100% matchups to a particular handgun fished out of a river three months after the shooting. . . I mean, c’mon!
I was talking to the missus about one particular Liberal trope in many of the shows mentioned above from what I saw in the last episode of The Rookie: All minority gangs are not that bad and almost West Side Story, the really bad is the White Supremacists. No mentions of either The Bloods or The Crips with the notable exception of The Mayor of Kingstown.