What if Wayne LaPierre has a point?

Okay, I think Wayne LaPierre - spokeshole for the NRA, is a blathering idiot.  He SHOUTS platitudes and sound bites and never faces the truth about gun violence in America.
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However, maybe buried in that self-serving diatribe he calls a "discussion", he just might have a point about violence in our culture.
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Americans are freaked out over sex, but we have desensitized our culture to violence to a point I wouldn't have believed a few years ago. Beheadings, mass automatic weapon shoot-outs and splatter blood erupt in prime time on basic TV channels.  Janet Jackson showed a nipple for less than 1/2 of one second was fined $550,000 dollars.  But last night on Fringe (which had an awesome ending - FYI) there was a 4 minute gratuitous automatic weapons fight, beheadings, blood splattered everywhere - and that was fine on regular TV (not even cable).
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Tom with another big gun...

Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Jeremy Renner, Harrison Ford are the mainstream actors, that killed violently and often and then end up with the girl and the glory.  Not just "the girl", but the much younger, hotter girl... like Thadia Newton or Cameroon Diaz or Donna Murphy or Mila Kunis or  Katherine Heigl (okay - Katherine Heigl is kind of a booby prize, but you catch the drift).
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That doesn't even include "action" stars like Bruce Willis, Arnold, Sly and Jean Claude.  Question, when was the last time someone used their brains or empathy to save the planet - Matthew Broaderick in War Games?  And he ended up with Ally Sheedy in her pre-slut days.  No self respecting adolescent boy wants to grow up and be Matthew Broaderick - not since Ferris Buehler's Day Off.
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On TV?  The most critically acclaimed new show is The Following where Kevin Bacon searches for a serial killer (the always cute James Purefoy) who stabs women in the eye with a knife, carves up people and kills like you and I make dinner - he (or his followers) kill 8 people in the first 1 hour show.  Sure crazy Hannibal Lecter did something like that, but he was in jail and shown as crazy.  Look at this big picture from the The Following.  Which is the killer - scary looking Kevin Bacon or hot Jame Purefoy?
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And I don't think it is fair to say "it's just TV" (or the movies, or video games or whatever).  Look, as a gay man, I applaud every time a positive gay role model is on TV or in a movie.  I think that this helps normalize us mos and shows people that we are just regular people.  So how can I honestly say that showing wholesale murder over and over again, often in the cause of justice - doesn't normalize this action?  And they get the girl and the happy ending.  Even if they die, the girl they love gets saved and goes on.
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Who is cuter?  Sad Cop or Happy Humpy Serial Killer?

So yeah, maybe Wayne LaPierre has a point about this.  He can still be wrong about assault weapons and generally, you know, an idiot.  I can admit he has a point and still think he is an asshole of such proportions that he is generating his own gravitational field.