A Rational Hollywood writer/director on guns -David Mamet

[VMI77]

The 99% of Hollywood gives the other 1% a bad name. Here's David Mamet on Gun Control. This essay will make me enjoy his movies, like "Spartan," and his TV show, "The Unit," all the more.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2 ... mamet.html

An excerpt:

The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands of a citizen is X times more likely to cause accidental damage than to be used in the prevention of crime, but what is there about criminals that ensures that their gun use is accident-free? If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

[Andrew]

Great essay. Excerpt:

Healthy government, as that based upon our Constitution, is strife. It awakens anxiety, passion, fervor, and, indeed, hatred and chicanery, both in pursuit of private gain and of public good. Those who promise to relieve us of the burden through their personal or ideological excellence, those who claim to hold the Magic Beans, are simply confidence men. Their emergence is inevitable, and our individual opposition to and rejection of them, as they emerge, must be blunt and sure; if they are arrogant, willful, duplicitous, or simply wrong, they must be replaced, else they will consolidate power, and use the treasury to buy votes, and deprive us of our liberties. It was to guard us against this inevitable decay of government that the Constitution was written. Its purpose was and is not to enthrone a Government superior to an imperfect and confused electorate, but to protect us from such a government.

This paragraph encompasses my beliefs perfectly.

[Beiruty]

Voted yes, and now, it is 89% yes vs 11% no.

[Gordie Howe]

David Mamet also came out of the closet recently, after at least 30 years in the public eye hiding that he is a conservative.

[hpcatx]

Voted yes, and now, it is 89% yes vs 11% no.

Voted yes, but it has slipped to 85%/15%.