Julianne Moore Calls For Stricter Gun Laws

[SecularMotion]

The mother of two is worried that her kids will be impacted by the mass killing of 20 children and 6 adults. She wanted to hide the incident from her kids, as Huffington Post pointed out, but thanks to the smartphone, her daughter found out.

“Simply keeping the news away from my child was putting my head in the sand. I wasn’t helping her, or anyone else, by doing that.”

America has strict gun laws in 18 states, but the remaining states are still to be awakened. Moore asked every woman of America to join the movement through an internet essay for Lena Dunham’s newsletter.

The passionate essay written by the 55-year-old actress was based on facts. The states where gun safety loopholes were closed have reported 46 percent less murders by intimate partners, 48 percent less firearm-enabled suicides, and 48 percent less homicides by police firing. Julianne Moore wants the other states to react soon.

http://www.morningnewsusa.com/julianne-moore-calls-stricter-gun-laws-2370749.html

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Regardless of the issue I've never understood why celebrities are given more credence on policy.

"Oh. Hey. An entertainer has an opinion about something! I loved their performance in that show so obviously this is the thing we must do."

meh

[melm00se]

2. this line:

"America has strict gun laws in 18 states, but the remaining states are still to be awakened. "

immediately tells me all I need to about the bias of the article's author.

[sarisataka]

5. All religions believe

they are the ONE TRUE FAITH.

Gun control is no exception.

[melm00se]

8. Actually I believe that

common ground can be found but (loud mouth) extremists at either end of the spectrum with their half truths, sometimes outright falsehoods and intransigent positions make that extremely difficult.

Comments like the one I highlighted above immediately cast dispersion upon anyone who does not agree with them. Not the way to frame a constructive debate or exchange or ideas.

There are plenty examples of the 1st paragraph scattered in just about every thread on DU, even more so in the "group" category.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. I'm not changing my mind until I hear it from Denzel, he's my hero

[gejohnston]

4. is her essay based on facts?

or simply assertion fallacy?
Women are more prone to be murdered? Look up the FBI UCR, young black men are most likely to be murdered in places like Detroit and Chicago.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. She's a celebrity and she really means it. What more do you need?

[DonP]

7. She has a publicist that tells her that her every word and thought is brilliant ...

... and must be shared with the whole world, so they can all appreciate her brilliance.

And that's how publicists get paid.

[Kang Colby]

9. Who gives a $hit what Julieann Moore thinks?

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Chicago, D.C., Baltimore, all have "strict gun laws". Yet, those cities suffer from an abundance of violence. The neighboring communities with firearm regulations more in alignment with the spirit of the 2A remarkably just don't have the same levels of violence. Lawful gun ownership is not the statistical problem.

I realize controllers try to twist and pad the numbers with suicides and far fetched definitions of "mass shootings", but damn give it a rest.

[SecularMotion]

12. Please define "lawful gun ownership"

[Straw Man]

13. I'll give it a shot.

Please define "lawful gun ownership"

Ownership of legal guns by people who are legally entitled to possess them and who use them for legal purposes.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. Or for the google impaired:

Lawful: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lawful?s=t
Gun: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gun?s=t
Ownership: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ownership?s=t

[beevul]

16. Why don't you ask Kurt Russel. N/T

[gejohnston]

10. Julianne who?

[Straw Man]

11. I catch a faint whiff of hypocrisy here.

[Duckhunter935]

15. Lol

Very typical.

[flamin lib]

17. Most people can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. nt

[beevul]

18. Whats her excuse? N/T

[Straw Man]

19. Right.

Most people can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. nt

And most people understand that repeated exposure to simulated violence increases the risk of actual violent behavior.

"There is now consensus that exposure to media violence is linked to actual violent behavior — a link found by many scholars to be on par with the correlation of exposure to secondhand smoke and the risk of lung cancer. In a meta-analysis of 217 studies published between 1957 and 1990, the psychologists George Comstock and Haejung Paik found that the short-term effect of exposure to media violence on actual physical violence against a person was moderate to large in strength."

--http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/does-media-violence-lead-to-the-real-thing.html

Advocating for gun control while profiting from the glorification of violent behavior? Smells like hypocrisy to me.