New showtime series: Lock n Load

[mbw]

I watched the first couple of episodes of this new show. In my opinion, anything produced by ShowTime or HBO will have a liberal or progressive slant and this show does not stray far from that. The two episodes that I watched do not portray gun owners in a positive light.

If the viewer is already a progressive or liberal, the show will feed their preconceived notion that all people who enjoy firearms are nuts. They need to be locked up, or at the very least watched very carefully because if given the opportunity, they will do things that are counterproductive to society.

This is what the progressive or liberal will get from this show-

Did you see that child waving around an ASSAULT RIFLE? How can any parent be so irresponsible? We must ban those things! No one has a legitimate need to own any firearm, much less an ASSAULT RIFLE! ASSAULT RIFLES should be used by military and police only; they are too dangerous for anyone else! We need keep a close eye on these people and probably go ahead and report them to CPS before the child is so damaged by this behavior that they will need the help of a good psychologist to ever be a productive citizen!

There are people in our country who will never understand, unless they become a victim and a statistic. I don’t think that this show is doing gun owners any favors.

[seamusTX]

Abraham, I am going to try to keep this response relevant to this thread.

Nearly everything on TV is produced to promote an agenda. Part of that agenda is to earn money by putting eyeballs in front of TV sets. One quick, easy way of accomplishing that is exploiting stereotypes and prejudices, because many people feel comfortable having their prejudices reinforced.

Often the agenda includes promoting political or social points of view that are not openly stated. Even shows that pretend to be objective and "balanced" generally are not. That's why I quit watching shows like "Sixty Minutes" years ago.

I don't know what this "Lock n Load" series is trying to do. I probably will never see it.

If this show promotes firearms safety, the fun and challenge of the shooting sports, the role of hunting in wildlife conservation, the importance of self defense, and the role of the right to keep and bear arms in American history, I owe you lunch.

- Jim

[Abraham]

Jim,

I understand.

I have a tendency to digress...in fact an enormous penchant for going off on tangents without fully appreciating such while I'm in the process...

I'll do my best to rein in.

Now, back to the original program.

[Skiprr]

Interesting that no one has mentioned the Lock 'n Load series on the History Channel. Hosted by R. Lee Ermey (and the Gunny, like most of us, is showing his age), is a series looking at the history, development, and engineering of combat weapons. The series began July 31, and hits (no pun intended) almost everything from modern-day field artillery, tanks, automatic firearms, pistols, to bladed weapons.

You see smack-down from guided missiles, to a Dillon Aero Minigun, to BMG .50 cal. penetrating/incendiary rounds.

There is no "political correctness" apology anywhere in the series.

Long-live the media not subservient to the political left.

[hheremtp]

Abraham, I am going to try to keep this response relevant to this thread.

Nearly everything on TV is produced to promote an agenda. Part of that agenda is to earn money by putting eyeballs in front of TV sets. One quick, easy way of accomplishing that is exploiting stereotypes and prejudices, because many people feel comfortable having their prejudices reinforced.

Often the agenda includes promoting political or social points of view that are not openly stated. Even shows that pretend to be objective and "balanced" generally are not. That's why I quit watching shows like "Sixty Minutes" years ago.

I don't know what this "Lock n Load" series is trying to do. I probably will never see it.

If this show promotes firearms safety, the fun and challenge of the shooting sports, the role of hunting in wildlife conservation, the importance of self defense, and the role of the right to keep and bear arms in American history, I owe you lunch.

- Jim

Jim,

From what I saw of this show I can safely say you can keep your wallet in your pants, you wont be buying any time in the near future. In fact it looks like it is slanted to portray the people in there as gun toting lunatics. Not my kind of show

[seamusTX]

Thanks.

- Jim

[chabouk]

To label television as garbage is akin to saying reading is garbage.

I think that if you compare what's popular (the major networks, versus the "reading" on display at the supermarket checkout), most of it is garbage. Or, comparing CNN/MSNBC/Fox News to USA Today, Time, and Newsweek, you can draw the same conclusion.

You're right that there's good stuff on TV. Most of it's on Discovery, History, or TLC.

I don't have Showtime and won't be catching this show (except maybe online), but I don't have a favorable impression from the previews.

[Abraham]

chabouk,

Right, that's why we have be SELECTIVE.

[UpTheIrons]

From what I saw of this show I can safely say you can keep your wallet in your pants, you wont be buying any time in the near future. In fact it looks like it is slanted to portray the people in there as gun toting lunatics. Not my kind of show

At the risk of resurrecting our hatred of most of TV, I offer the following. My wife and I watched the whole "Lock 'n Load" series yesterday (my in-laws have that AT&T U-Verse thing, and the series was available with Showtime On Demand - all 5 half hour episodes) and I came away with a bit of a different impression.

On the whole I think it portrays gun owners positively. Sure, there was the creepy guy that said the "quickest way to a woman's heart is with a scalpel" and the squirrely guy who said "I want to draw my gun", but the balance of the people were "normal" Americans who like firearms. Old people, young people, fat people, skinny people...

The interviews done outside the gun shop were very well done and positively reflected gun owners, I think. The pastor, the guy with the bad haircut and the pink towel for his gun cleaning, the vegetarian veterinarian - they were all 'pluses' for normality.

There was also the gal who failed her background check - she (and her 'crew') didn't really seem to be on the level. I wondered about that.

Some of the most cringe-worthy stuff was the shooting range hidden camera stuff, where ladies were either given guns much too powerful for them,** or seemed like they were forced to go shoot by their husbands/boyfriends. Oh, and the bicyclist girl who pointed the Desert Eagle at her boyfriend at the counter. As for the host - he did have his "I'm trying too hard" moments, but that improved with time.

If you can get a look at it for free, take a look at the whole thing and I think you might be pleasantly surprised. My wife liked it, but she's a shooter, too. The angrylibgunhaterprogressivecommies that may have only seen episodes 1 and 2 and drawn their own conclusions without watching any more of it will likely have their stereotypes reinforced, unfortunately.

For what it's worth...


** Edit: What I mean by "too powerful" is that it was obvious they had never fired a gun before, and their man hands 'em a 9mm or .45 with only the basic idea of how to hold it and pull the trigger, without working them up to the bigger bore stuff.