http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/national-rifle-association-tv-drama-series-cold-dead-hands/

Apparently the Sundance Channel is going to have an hour long fictional drama centered around a leader of the NRA and the gun control debate. According to it's creator “The debate over gun violence and gun rights has many sides, and in order to help protect lives, promote gun safety and build a national consensus on the issues, we want to respect and understand all sides of this story”

 

Quite obviously I guarantee that it is going to come out as pro gun control, but I believe Its going to be a little more stealthy about it than normal based on this other article came across (even though the article tries to make it sound like it will be neutral)
http://www.troyrecord.com/arts-and-entertainment/20131219/guns-politics-and-riveting-television

 

 

The hour-long drama will revolve around a fictional leader of the NRA named Early “Trip” Thibodeaux III — a husband, father and the nation’s most powerful gun-rights advocate. How much he’ll resemble the real head of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, is unclear, but Thibodeaux is described as a “charismatic and polarizing figure” who finds himself in a crisis of faith.
 
“My hope is that Trip Thibodeaux will be the most principled man you’ve ever met,” said Gold. “Whether you agree with that principle or not is entirely up to you.”

Based on that I can tell you exactly what the story is. There will be some type of tragedy (maybe a school shooting, maybe his own kid is killed), and he will have a "crisis of faith" which will be does he continue fighting gun control based on his principles or does he support some gun control measures because he knows "it will save lives" (my guess is  AWB or UBCs). It ends with him deciding to continue fighting  gun control based on his "principles". They will portray him not as evil or anything but simply have very strong beliefs in certain principles which are actually respectable.

The stealth pro gun control message will come from them portraying the proposed measures as if that it was a fact that they would actually work.  They can claim that pro gun rights people are being fairly portrayed because they are showing them not as evil and in fact have "honorable principles". The Anti's of course will still take it as pro gun rights people are evil (which to be honest even if show was 100% neutral they would still see that). When it comes to Neutral people though, they will take away that the NRA is simply standing on a respectable principle. Gun control being portrayed as if it would work though, will leave an undertone that those principles are misguided. The neutral people will subconsciously pickup on these, pushing their opinion more towards supporting gun control, while they think they watched a neutral show.

I pretty much guarantee that is roughly how the show will go, and really the biggest question is how much anti gun stuff will they try to get away with while still claiming to be neutral (like maybe like making the perpetrator/s of the tragedy a mentally disturbed  TEA party members)

(like maybe like making the perpetrator/s of the tragedy a mentally disturbed  TEA party members)

 

I wouldn't expect them to be truthful and portray the perpetrator as a mentally disturbed liberal, would you ?

Of course not but if they really want to try to keep the appearance of being neutral they may make it just a generic mentally disturbed person, or gang violence or maybe a terrorist attack which the terrorist got firearms (probably fully automatic) with no background check from a gun show.

 

It was suppose to read "but if they really"

Edited December 21, 201312 yr by JSF01

Of course not but they really want to try to keep the appearance of being neutral they may make it just a generic mentally disturbed person, or gang violence or maybe a terrorist attack which the terrorist got firearms (probably fully automatic) with no background check from a gun show.

 

Deleted. See below. My bad.

 

Unfortunately, the problem here is that it's only going to be on the "Sundance Channel" on Cable TV, and not where it really needs to be... On an MSM broadcast network Channel, so that the "sheeples" can see it and decide for themselves. The MSM ain't ever gonna let that happen.

???... That's a good thing. The less sheeples that see this the better since it is pretty much guaranteed to be anti gun propaganda. It's being produced by a liberal who specifically said

 

“The debate over gun violence and gun rights has many sides, and in order to help protect lives, promote gun safety and build a national consensus on the issues, we want to respect and understand all sides of this story”

That's pretty much the standard quote from every gun control group out there that wants to appear as if the gun control they are pushing is "common sense". Then there is also this

 

It centers on the fictional and polarizing head of the NRA, Trip Thibodeaux, and the drama that swirls around him both at work and at home. Trip is a father and husband — and he also happens to be the nation’s most powerful gun-rights advocate and the de facto CEO of the gun industry.

The idea that the head of the NRA is the de facto CEO of the gun industry is an Anti view point, which any person being fair knows that is completely untrue. To the sheeple though who don't have a clue about firearms and the "debates" that surround then, it sounds true if it comes from a supposedly neutral source which this drama is likely to bill itself as.

 

???... That's a good thing. The less sheeples that see this the better since it is pretty much guaranteed to be anti gun propaganda. It's being produced by a liberal who specifically said

 

That's pretty much the standard quote from every gun control group out there that wants to appear as if the gun control they are pushing is "common sense". Then there is also this

 

The idea that the head of the NRA is the de facto CEO of the gun industry is an Anti view point, which any person being fair knows that is completely untrue. To the sheeple though who don't have a clue about firearms and the "debates" that surround then, it sounds true if it comes from a supposedly neutral source which this drama is likely to bill itself as.

 

 

My bad.   I misunderstood your original post. In this case, I wonder why this show wasn't picked up by the MSM.

 

We absolutely need equal representation before the sheeples. But it doesn't look like we'll be getting any from the MSM, anytime soon.  And the few cable/YT/Streaming channels present that are pro-2a just aren't enough. I don't even think the sheeples know they exist.

 

I cannot believe there aren't enough pro-2a people (in the MSM/Hollywood) and enough $$$ not to do this.  It will be a tough battle (the antis won't waste any opportunity to spin what we do as crazy/stupid/negative/not to be allowed etc..). We need people just as plausible and charismatic as the antis, and then let them square off on the MSM, where the sheeples will watch.

I think there is technically enough people in Hollywood to get a Pro 2A show out, the problem is they are all generally afraid to speak up. The liberals managed to get control of most of Hollywood and therefore if you go against their ideas, they pretty much blacklist you and it can become almost impossible to find another acting job. I do agree there definitely needs to be more Pro 2A shows. It's actually something I had been thinking about lately since it would be extremely useful for getting more people interested in shooting. One of the things I have come up with is to use a remote/computer controlled chopper with a video camera to record  USPSA matches. That way you could have a very stable platform that can record and follow the action from any direction including in front of the field of fire safely, Making it more exciting to watch.