More outrageousness!

I don't recommend movies. I enjoy stories and am a movie/story watcher, not a film critic. That said, I must comment on something that I just heard from Jodie Foster in the movie "The Brave One."

For those who will never see the film, suffice it to say that Ms. Foster's character, Erica, goes through an extremely traumatic experience and feels the need to buy a handgun for personal protection. I will say she made a good choice in purchasing a Kahr 9mm, a gun I would like to own someday. That said, the quote that I am commenting on does not come from the film, but the special features.

Ms. Foster says, "The second that you buy a gun, fear is yours. You've walked into a culture that immediately puts you in danger, and puts others in dangers of you, and, I, I hope that that's the moral of the story in some ways; that buying the gun and putting the gun in her pocket, has her go through this 'Alice in Wonderland' journey that otherwise she would never have experienced."

As a gun owner myself, I find this extremely revolting. The ignorance that Ms. Foster has of the majority of the American gun-owning population (which is the majority of the population) is astounding. To believe that the only motivation to own a firearm is fear shows an amazing level of misperception. Also, to believe that carrying a firearm puts the individual as well as the general populace in danger is a common mantra among those who would strip us of our 2nd amendment rights. Those who choose to take on the responsibility of arming themselves in public do so to societies benefit. Statistically, crime goes down and societies are made safer. The criminal element is not so naive to think that they run no risk of harm when there exists the possibility that their victim just might bite back.

Ms. Foster is sadly mistaken if she believes that the act of carrying a firearm somehow transforms the individual in some sort of surreal way. Most of the time, the decision to carry is reached and made as a result of carefully considered values and convictions. The individual is not transformed by the act of carrying but transforms their actions based upon their convictions.

Let's all hope that when the crap hits the fan around Ms. Foster that someone will have taken that "'Alice in Wonderland' journey" and be able to save her rear to make a more carefully considered movie.

Blessings,
theMK