Nearly 200 writers, actors and directors– including Shonda Rhimes, Adam McKay and Judd Apatow– have signed a petition calling for Hollywood to “harness their power as culture makers” and reconsider how they portray gun use in film.
co-creator Bill Lawrence and horror filmmaker Eli Roth, ironically known for his gruesome death scenes.
The nonprofit Brady: United Against Gun Violence, which is responsible for disseminating the petition, pointed to Hollywood’s influence on its young, impressionable viewers. The people on the list aren’t the only ones calling Hollywood out for their obsession with flying bullets.Now, as America’s gun violence epidemic worsens, is the time to undertake a responsibility in storytelling depicting firearms and gun safety.attacked the hypocrisy of an industry that stands up for gun control laws while putting out movie after movie about men who pick up guns to enact revenge.
“When liberals scream, ‘Do something!’ after a mass shooting, why aren’t we also dealing with the fact that the average American kid sees 200,000 acts of violence on screens before the age of 18? And that according to the FBI, one of the warning signs of a potential school shooter is ‘a fascination with violence-filled entertainment,’” he added.
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