The media makes you king-for-a-day.

[G27 Hider]

For whatever reason, a major TV/Cable network calls you and tells you the following:

1. They are doing a documentary on guns and self defense in modern America.
2. It will run two hours, commercial free.
3. You will designate the people who will be featured in the show.
4. You can pick up to six persons to be featured.
5. The show will focus on each person for an equal amount of time. (So, if you picked six, each gets 20 minutes; if you picked two, each gets one hour.)

Who do you tell them to feature, and why?

 

[30-06 lover]

Boddington and Lapierre. Both are vastly educated in guns and self defence.

 

[SHOOT1SAM]

Professor John Lott, because if memory serves me correctly, he began his landmark research with a very unfriendly opinion on guns, but his own research turned him around.

Wayne LaPierre, Massad Ayoob, Roy Innis, Sen. Zell Miller (retired, D-GA) because they are well-versed in explaining/defending the RTKBA.

And for a 6th, I'd need a celebrity; someone like Ted Nugent, Karl Malone, Eva Longoria, maybe Steven Tyler.....someone with the celebrity status that all the young 'uns would listen to.

Sam

 

[larry_minn]

SHOOT1SAM Has dang good choices. I would almost want a anti gunner so folks could see how lame their side is. (Media always seems to cut off Pro-gun folks once they score points with TRUTH on anits. )
I would consider Tom Seleck for Media person. His taking care of Rosie O'donut was clasic.

 

[WayneConrad]

No pundits. Just very ordinary people who preserved their life and liberty with a firearm. Only one that had to shoot. But every one saved from harm by using a firearm. No Ted Nugents. No LaPierres. Great guys, but I want to focus on ordinary people, and on the reality that firearms are commonly used for good, and seldom fired during those uses. I want to show what the press never shows: That ordinary people use firearms as tools for good... routinely.

Reenactments would lend interest. Show why these people had a firearm and knew to use it, show the good that came from each of them having one.

I want each of the people or families featured to be very ordinary, but also very different from one another (a husband, a wife, a grandpa, a grandma... you get the idea). I want them to be people that the average guy can identify with.

 

[SHOOT1SAM]

Thanks for the thumbs-up larry_minn. I considered Tom Selleck, but my recollection (which isn't what I remember it being) was that he was caught too off-guard by Rosie O'Twaddle & didn't really acquit himself too well, and he really isn't a celebrity that younger people know very well.

Further, I have to tip my hat to WayneConrad: A "real" person/couple/family or two who have actually had to defend themselves is a real "must have".

Sam

 

[Zundfolge]

Jackie Mason ... two solid hours of Jackie Mason calling gun controllers "f****** idiots".


Frankly a two hour show isn't going to do any good in the grand scheme of things so it might as well be entertaining (maybe show the Penn & Teller episode of Bull S*** for the final half hour ... its got Jackie Mason in it too).

 

[mbt2001]

I would have them feature Osamma Bin Laden, a muslim cleric, louis faircon and that crazy dude that thinks Mexico should take over California and crap, and 2 inmates in the pen for multiple counts of murder, violence, rape and all that jazz.

This is a horror feature. This feature is about what these guys want to do to your little blond daughter Mr. Anti and the only thing between them and her is a bit of cloth.....

This is about real life and what happens in real life when people perceive weakness or just think they don't have anything to lose by trying.

 

[entropy]

I'd politelty decline, because they'd merely twist anything they had to say anyways, no matter how much they promised no to beforehand, and then retreat behind the First Amendment when you called them on it.

 

[Taipei Personality]

No pundits. Just very ordinary people who preserved their life and liberty with a firearm. Only one that had to shoot. But every one saved from harm by using a firearm. No Ted Nugents. No LaPierres. Great guys, but I want to focus on ordinary people, and on the reality that firearms are commonly used for good, and seldom fired during those uses. I want to show what the press never shows: That ordinary people use firearms as tools for good... routinely.

Reenactments would lend interest. Show why these people had a firearm and knew to use it, show the good that came from each of them having one.

I want each of the people or families featured to be very ordinary, but also very different from one another (a husband, a wife, a grandpa, a grandma... you get the idea). I want them to be people that the average guy can identify with.

+1, with two exceptions. I'd have Texas Representative Suzanna Gratia Hupp and Mary Carpenter on to tell their stories.

 

[larry_minn]

SHOOT1SAM While he was by no means perfect. He was ambushed. He was told he was going to promote his latest movie (forget which one) and was geared up to take advantage of being able to (plug) his new movie.
Instead she ambushes him with venom and spit. He does NOT loose his cool (like she wanted) or respond in kind. He was too mellow I agree BUT he was caught totally off guard.
I know that once you loose your cool they win. (they can yell scream/call you names and that is OK but a gun owner who is not 100% in control of emotinos is a THREAT. (in their mind)

 

[Hardware]

Simple. The founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, James Madison, George Washington. They could testify about what the right to bear arms meant to them and finally settle all the "interpretting" the gun grabbers like to do.

 

[bogie]

I'd pick Nugent and Selleck, Gratia-Hupp (or whatever) and Lott, and Oleg and Kenn. 3 separate segments.

 

[Waitone]

The grandmother of the children butched in the Merced, CA murders.

Rebecca Peters

Gratia-Hupp

Ms. Brady

Conclude by playing video from JPFO's production on genocide.

Closing credits over video of Grandma in New Orleans getting body slammed by an overly enthusiastic LE ossifer.

 

[CrazyIrishman]

Hmmm,

WELL,before any choices were made (if it were possible)I would have the network and the person in charge of the show SIGN the necessary papers so the show airs as I want it w/o ANY CHANGES from the NETWORK or their peons! Knowing how the media and tv shows misrepresent certain facts this at a minumum should be done. Penalties would be severe.

That being said......

The first 30 minutes would feature documents and letters written by the founding fathers describing their feelings regarding the RKBA due to many people not being able to understand the SECOND AMENDMENT! Narrated by Sen. Zell Miller,Ted Nugent, or Robert Stack.

The second 30 minutes would be a debate between John Lott and Sarah Brady (she can't use cue cards-lol) about self defense & gun ownership. The host/mediator would be Tom Selleck. Questions would be asked by the audience. Reenactments would be featured.

The next 60 minutes would have Massad Ayoob interview four people who had to defend theirselves & family.

 

[Lupinus]

John Lott, Wayne LaPierre, The Nudge, Sarah Brady, and I'd leave two slots open for people who aren't researchers or celebs or anything. One would definatly be a survivor of an attack and the reason being they had a gun to save themselves, the second either another person who used a gun to save themselves, a responsible hunter, or a chl holder.

First three because they are well versed and know what they are talking about and have the celeb status and name recognition. The last too to chronicle everyday Americans who are responsible gun owners and to show they are regular people and not some whacked out nut jobs. Why Sarah Bady you ask? Why for contrast of course and to show how stupid the anti position is. Contrast just makes the star shine all the better.