In a world that seems set to tear itself apart it would seem that anyone being anti-gun would be considered to be someone that’s just not living in reality. But in the movies it’s still possible to see the ideas that guns are not the answer to every problem, no matter that if reality doesn’t like to conform to the idea all that often. The dream for some is to live in a world where guns might exist, but are not the common cure for every problem that mankind can concoct. In movies it works at times, but often the story goes right back to the same old, same old.
People have been looking for ways to defend, to kill, and to eradicate since they became aware of one another. Loving each other is far harder at times.
5. Demolition Man
This futuristic world is just about anti-everything that’s not deemed as being good for a person. A world in which spicy food is outlawed seems kind of dreary really, but when all guns have been rounded up and relegated to a museum spectacle you’d have to wonder why anyone would see fit to not destroy the ammunition. Oh that’s right, because the world became a seriously wimped-out version of itself in this movie.
4. KickAss 2
So yes, Captain Stars and Stripes did in fact pull a gun at one point in this scene, but as he reveals later on it’s not loaded. It’s simply what the thugs that they were going up against understood. When it’s easier to deal death and destruction with a pistol or other firearm it’s not quite as effective to simply pull a knife or an axe handle on someone. Though quite honestly the latter can do a lot more internal damage and hurt worse in the long run.
3. The Rundown
Beck will use guns, but he doesn’t like them. They take him to a place that he doesn’t like to go and make him into a person that he doesn’t like to be. He picks up a couple of shotguns with full intent of using them and does a lot of damage but when they run empty he’s quick to put them down and go right back to using his fists. So yes, he uses guns at various points in the movie but he prefers to leave them alone.
2. Hacksaw Ridge
Private Doss is a man that never wanted to touch a rifle but would willingly wade into battle alongside his fellow soldiers. He was one of the odd men out that was called a coward for not picking up a weapon, and yet he saved so many men that such a term was never used to describe him ever again. It’s more than heroic to walk into battle with the intent on saving as many as you can rather than taking the lives of any that oppose you.
1. Runaway Jury
It wasn’t just winning a case against a gun company in this movie that was so important, it was setting a precedent that you would think that could transition over to real life. Guns alone aren’t the problem, it’s the people they’re sold to and the devil-may-care attitude of the companies that sell them.
As a person that doesn’t like guns I’ll say this, getting rid of the guns isn’t much of an option, but regulating how easy it is to obtain them should be.
