Sorry, Aunt B.
Aunt B. says this gun nut ruined crappy TeeVee for her:
So, there I am watching Cold Case, which is one of those shows that one watches only so that one can properly enjoy the MadTV send-up of it, when all of a sudden it dawns on me that this particular episode is strangely biased against guns and violent video games.
You know how it came out a couple of years ago that the government had some kind of arrangement with Television that, if shows had a sufficient anti-drug message, they’d reap some governmental benefit? I don’t remember the particulars, just that the government was encouraging shows to subtly preach that drugs are bad.
Watching this show last night?
I’ve begun to suspect that there may be a similar program against guns, if not also violent video games.
Well, TeeVee teaches us all kinds of stuff for our own good that is total bullshit, such as telling us that the police can search/detain you no matter what. I’ve covered that stuff here, here and here.
September 26th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Last night, walked into the living room. Wife was watching CSI something or other and just as I I relax into my favorite chair, some cute little blonde (who, Im told, is the blonde in Real Science) who is the “resident firearms expert” states matter of factly, “the only reason to design a new gun is to find an easier way to kill people”
I got up, said this is bullshit, and put on Monday Night Football.
She didn’t challenge over changing the channel, only my choice of alternative programing
September 26th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
As a practical matter, the police can search/detain you no matter what. Two years later you might prove in court that they shouldn’t have – but 99% of the time, the courts will decide that they had “qualified immunity” and so you can’t sue them for their illegal actions, their superiors don’t discipline them, and the DA won’t prosecute them. The only time they get “punished” for illegal actions is if you actually were a criminal, illegally carrying whatever it was they were searching for, and the evidence is thrown out by the court…
Of course, unless you are rich, you are likely to spend those two years in jail – even for a charge that would get you a few weeks if you pled guilty.