Tomac
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What are Boise's CCW laws like?
Idaho is a "shall issue" state, I see almost as many CCW permits presented for ID as I do DL's.
Tomac
What are Boise's CCW laws like?
Dunno. It was an excellent, thorough review.hmmm that christian review made me want to see the movie more..... is that bad?
I am getting the feeling that this movie isn't so much anti-gun; but rather about vengeance.
Kentak said:By that time, she had received some evidence she could have turned over to the police and let justice take its course. Instead, she acts on pure revenge.
Kentak said:Again, this movie seems to me to be more about what violence and the need to exact revenge does to the individual, how it changes them, rather than any overt message about guns or self-defense.
Mannlicher said:I see it as just another gun movie acted out by anti gun hollywood types. The conclusions are anti gun in this case. what a surprise.
Actually, she refuses to identify the bad guy in a police lineup after the police have found and have hard evidence about the bad guy. She lies and said she doesn't recognize the bad guy when she does.
Only thing I could come up with is that she wanted him out on the street to get him herself. What did you think?
Oh my, that doesn't really reflect reality now does it?Used every stereotype in the book, bad guys were gangster Puerto Ricans, go to Chinatown for a back-alley gun purchase, liberal NYC boss, Immigrant 7-11 clerk, rich businessman secretly abusive husband, sympathetic cop...
Seriously Kentak half the entertainment of the movie is that it's a female equivalent of Death Wish xx with an actress that abhors violence in it.
I did not think it was intended to be a statement about RKBA.
I'd have to agree. Jodi Foster is seriously anti-gun as far as I can tell (nice of her to compromise her principles to fatten her wallet though) but I didn't see a lot of bias in the film. It seemed to be trying hard to build some moral ambiguity about the actions the main character was taking, but to my eye they didn't fit. Examples:I don't think there really was any agenda with this film.
I could not agree more.
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Originally Posted by Mannlicher
I see it as just another gun movie acted out by anti gun hollywood types. The conclusions are anti gun in this case. what a surprise.
What did you see in the movie that made it anti? I couldn't see anything in the movie that was pro or anti. I'm not arguing, I just wonder if you saw something I didn't see. Was there something I didn't see?
Mike
It was 579 last year. I was really just curious what the rates actually were. Jody Foster's character keeps intoning "the safest largest city in America", with irony in the movie.
[SIZE="3"]1 New York New York 8,214,426 6.6
2 Los Angeles California 3,849,378 12.6
3 Chicago Illinois 2,833,321 15.6
4 Houston Texas 2,144,491 16.3
5 Phoenix Arizona 1,512,986 15.0
6 Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1,448,394 25.6
7 San Antonio Texas 1,296,682 6.8
8 San Diego California 1,256,951 4.0
9 Dallas Texas 1,232,940 16.4[/SIZE]
Bronson's character goes through a transformation of sorts in the first movie. Remember the "change in a sock" he used for a sap? When he used it he was sickened by the action. Then he started becoming empowered by the act as was shown in the scene where he was swinging it at everything until it broke.A lot of people have compared it to Death Wish - but I remember the Death Wish not portraying any change in Bronson's character. It's been a long time, but it seems to me that the point of those movies is that Bronson character was always prepared to do what he needed to do.