Which movie would you require all anti gun folks to watch

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Pretty sure most of them have seen most of those movies listed.

I think their brains are just wired different. They can see a brutal scene from Schindler's List of a Nazi shooting a defenseless Jew and think, "See, guns are evil!" rather than the proper response of, "See, governments that disarm their citizens are evil!".
 
The original Mad Max movie with Mel Gibson and the second Mad Max movie called The Road Warrior. Both are great movies IMHO, and I can watch them over and over. They have two things I love--fast cars/motor bikes/etc., and the fact that the main character (Max Brockatansky sp?) has a double barreled sawed off shot gun at his side. These first two movies are great for motivating people to have guns in order to protect themselves from human scum that want to rape, pillage, steal and destroy.

I'm just a big fan of these two movies. The other two movies in the series suck IMHO. The movie produced in the 1980s with Tina Turner sucked (Mad Max III) and the movie produced in like 2013 sucked too (but it did have Glocks in it). But the first two movies, absolute classics IMHO.
 
Defiance comes to mind.

2008 movie set during the occupation of Belarus by the Nazis. Account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by Polish Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Belarus.

The original Red Dawn, greatest guilty pleasure movie for gun folk ever.

A more serious off-shoot, more timely (not necessarily more believable, but, hey ...): AmeriGeddon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4059702/


We can't talk about the zombie apocalypse, but if Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead aren't good arguments for the right to keep and bear arms, what is? Even the most most liberal anti-gun folks in my family and of my acquaintance have all told me after seeing movies in that genre, that they'll be heading over to my house when the bad stuff starts happening ...
 
I wouldn't waste my time. The information is out there - they choose to ignore it. Most anti-gunners are not capable of changing their minds.

Unfortunately for some small percentage that are capable of learning, it usually takes something big like 9/11 or what we're going through now. For those that are not capable, all the evidence just reinforces their belief (e.g. "what happened in Schindler's List wouldn't have happened if those Nazis didn't have guns...").

An alternative question, I believe originally posed by Rabbi Dovid Bendory, rabbinic director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: How different might things have been if every Jewish home had a Mauser rifle and 30 rounds of ammunition?
Would the brownshirts, Gestapo and SS been so have eager to kick doors?
 
An alternative question, I believe originally posed by Rabbi Dovid Bendory, rabbinic director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: How different might things have been if every Jewish home had a Mauser rifle and 30 rounds of ammunition?
Would the brownshirts, Gestapo and SS been so have eager to kick doors?

Which is exactly why the synagogue I attend encourages firearm ownership.
 
I was that way for a few years on Saving Private Ryan. Almost left the theater a couple of times and just about stomped a fella who was cheering at a scene at the end.

I don't think I could controlled myself if I was there. That's just unbelievable and disgusting.
 
Look we're all getting a bit stir crazy with what's going on. So lets have a little fun. If you could require an anti gun American to watch only one specific movie, which movie would you pick? My pick would be "Schindler's list"! What say you folks?

What makes you think that watching a movie is some how going to change a person's mind? People are not that simple and motivations are deeper rooted. Governments are finding "de radicalizing", "de programming" has not been working, even after movies, discussion groups, and counseling. Drug addicts stay drug addicts, terrorists game the system and go out and kill people once they are loose. Criminals do the same to get out of prison. If you do not understand why the person acts, thinks, they way they do, some movie, fictional or not, is not going to change their mind or their behaviors.
 
I think we understand that no movie will change a persons mind unless they are ready for it to change. Beyond that it's mostly entertainment.

"John Wick! Because it could happen!"

"I wouldn't recommend that movie to an anti gun person.
Actually, I wouldn't recommend that piece of crap movie to anyone!"

It's a great flick about a boy and his dog. What's not to like? :)
 
I think movies can be a bit more powerful than some will believe. Maybe not someone changed complete ideology but maybe make them question it. I will honestly say V for Vendetta had a huge impact on me in quite a few small ways.
 
How about demolition man, super passive society govt wants to kill those unwilling to live by societies rules. Release murder to accomplish goal.
They’d find the “upper” world far too appealing, even if they could figure out the Three Seashells...

Idiocracy shows where we’re headed far too effectively as well, plus they’d all end up wanting a Starbucks anyway...
 
Gotta admit, I have never seen any of the John Wick movies. I have seen more videos of Keanu Reaves on a real firing range in practice. Eventually I will change that.
 
Gotta admit, I have never seen any of the John Wick movies. I have seen more videos of Keanu Reaves on a real firing range in practice. Eventually I will change that.

Don't waste your time. I saw the 1st one. I "get it" about the dog being killed triggering him into doing what he did ....... however, I cannot develop sympathy for mob hitmen, reformed or not, they're bad movie heroes.

I'm just strange that way. YMMV.
 
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