{"id":934106,"date":"2021-10-28T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=934106"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:43:52","slug":"nolte-banning-real-guns-on-movie-sets-is-just-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-banning-real-guns-on-movie-sets-is-just-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Banning Real Guns on Movie Sets Is Just Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-banning-real-guns-on-movie-sets-is-just-stupid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=934106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">In the wake of Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting and killing a cinematographer last week, there\u2019s serious talk of banning functioning guns on all movie and TV sets. All gunfire should be CGI\u2019d now, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course, they say that. And we all knew they would the moment the news of this awful event broke. Because that\u2019s what they always do\u2014push a panic button and boss everyone around like a bunch of old women.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is what America has become: an irrational and increasingly stupid country required to overreact to everything. Overreacting is now the only way to prove you care.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so predictable. Something terrible happens, and rather than blame the individuals involved, the hysterical virtue signalers \u2014 mainly the media and politicians \u2014 burst out of the woodwork to blame everything, like <em>the system<\/em> or <em>society<\/em>, and now <em>everything<\/em> must change.<\/p>\n<p>According to various reports, Halyna Hutchins was not killed by a policy, system, society, or even a gun. Her husband is a widower, and her child is motherless because a countless number of people did not do what they were supposed to do.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The armorer, the first assistant director, and the movie\u2019s star and producer, Alec Baldwin, did not check the gun to be sure it wasn\u2019t loaded.<\/li>\n<li>Baldwin pointed a functioning gun at another person and almost certainly pulled the trigger.<\/li>\n<li>Idiot crew people used the prop gun for real target practice.<\/li>\n<li>Idiot crew people mixed actual bullets with blanks.<\/li>\n<li>The producers hired these idiots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thus far, I\u2019ve counted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/27\/nolte-15-things-that-reportedly-went-wrong-on-alec-baldwins-deadly-rust-set\/\">15 things<\/a> that went wrong on that set that led to the tragic death of a 42-year-old wife and mother, and not one of those 15 items blames the gun. Nevertheless, when you read the hysteria, you are led to believe the gun pointed itself at poor Hutchins and pulled its own trigger.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18499322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-484718018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18499322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-484718018-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Detail of a gun in use at Fort Bravo\/Texas Hollywood on August 20, 2015 in Almeria, Spain. Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood, built in the 1960s in Almeria, Spain, is a western style set for films, which is also used for tourist tours. (Juan Naharro Gimenez\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nothing about this is funny, but I do find it amusing that when you read a story about how <em>This Isn\u2019t the First Time Someone Was Shot and Killed Making a Movie<\/em>, the story is always about the 1993 shooting death of Brandon Lee on the set of <em>The Crow<\/em>. &nbsp;Why? Because that\u2019s the last time this happened \u2026 in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Let me repeat: <em>1993!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That was 28 years ago!<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In all of movie and television production, how many rounds do you think have been discharged over 28 years? I\u2019ll bet it\u2019s in the millions, and until last week, no one had been killed for 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Because the safeguards put in place after Brandon Lee\u2019s untimely death not only work, they are foolproof. &nbsp;But you have to follow them.<\/p>\n<p>Halyna Hutchins is not dead because there was a functioning gun on a movie set. She\u2019s dead because cheap producers hired incompetents who handed a loaded gun to an actor who pointed a gun (he didn\u2019t check) at another human being and likely pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>If you go back and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/22\/nolte-gun-safety-procedures-obviously-not-followed-on-alec-baldwin-set\/\">read how<\/a> Brandon Lee died, it was a perfect storm of unlikely events. But if you\u2019ve been following the Baldwin story, you know this was a deadly shooting just waiting to happen, a perfect storm of incompetence, negligence, recklessness, and lack of respect for the most basic rules of handling firearms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>But this is America in 2021, where we are required to prove how much we <em>care<\/em> by how much we freak out<em>. <\/em>So if there\u2019s one deadly shooting in 28 years, ban real guns and make movies even more fake with CGI\u2019d muzzle flashes and actors jerking their arms. Oh, and let\u2019s put all the armorers out of work, a whole class of specialists.<\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s no need to have real guns in movies!<\/em> they screech.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is. The CGI looks and feels fake. And there is also the question of free artistic expression.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18499378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-74879943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18499378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-74879943-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mia Lawrence fires her weapon at a target as she competes against three other women on the set of Girls and Guns, a web-based reality show featuring women shooting weapons with live ammunition June 23, 2007 in Homestead, Florida. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I love the <em>John Wick<\/em> movies as much as anyone, but the fake muzzle flashes and blood spurts still look fake. And <em>John Wick<\/em> is a top-shelf production.<\/p>\n<p>This all fits in perfectly with how stupid this country\u2019s become over the last few years. Bad cop in Minneapolis? Burn the whole fucking country down. Virus with a better than 99 percent survival rate? Shut the whole fucking country down. Transsexuals have hurt feelings? Let men share locker rooms with your daughter and outlaw jokes. Arrogant schools boards don\u2019t like being challenged? Have the FBI target parents as terrorists. A handful of kids hospitalized? Make \u2019em all wear masks.<\/p>\n<p>What a stupid country we\u2019ve become.<\/p>\n<p>How hard is it to not point a working gun at someone and pull the trigger?<\/p>\n<p>Stupid, stupid, stupid; it\u2019s all so stupid.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting and killing a cinematographer last week, there\u2019s serious talk of banning functioning guns on all movie and TV sets. 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