Prepare Yourself. The Gun Debate Is SOLVED

Great news, liberal god-and-guns-hating girly America: famous loudmouth movie producer Harvey Weinstein is going to get rid of the NRA and, uh, guns. All of them. How nice of him? What is his plan?

Oh? Oh. He’s just going to make some dumb movie with Meryl Streep. From Mr. Weinstein’s fellow liberals at the Huffington Post:

Weinstein got into a discussion with Stern about the issue of gun control, telling the controversial radio host, “I don’t think we need guns in this country, and I hate it. I think the NRA is a disaster area.”

“I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard. I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on,” Weinstein continued. “And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”

According to the Washington Times, Weinstein said he hopes moviegoers leave his film, which he compared to “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” thinking, “‘Gun stocks — I don’t want to be involved in that stuff.’ It’s going to be like crash and burn.”

Now we know how, say, Barack Obama or other top Democrats feel when they go to pick up their big checks from Weinstein and others in Hollywood. “Mr. President, I’m going to make a movie that changes how the whole world thinks about guns! Meryl Streep!” “Uh huh, sure you are, go for it. . .”

Here’s the reaction that a fiercely anti-gun movie produced by Harvey Weinstein and starring Meryl Streep would produce: those who don’t love guns would find it a mediocre-to-insufferable and certainly not entertaining movie; those who love guns would reaffirm their love of guns by buying millions of new guns, just to stick it to the Hollywood liberals. It would reaffirm the status quo, because it’s just a movie.

Just a movie. Remember that not long ago, someone shot nearly two dozen children in Connecticut, and even that didn’t change the politics around guns in this country, and left the NRA just as intact as ever. And that was something that happened in real life!

And really, the focus on the NRA is one of the major problems with The Gun Debate in this country. Weinstein, like many others, seems to believe that no one, deep down, really likes guns, and the NRA is holding those who profess to like guns under some sort of hypnotic spell. All that’s needed is, say, a movie, or a PR campaign, to “reveal” the dark underbelly of the NRA, and the country will wake up.

The truth, though, is that millions and millions of Americans love guns—probably love them more than people like Harvey Weinstein hate them—and the strength of the NRA is a manifestation of that. Weinstein’s movie brings the fight to a plane on which people are more comfortable hashing this thing out: liberal Hollywood versus the NRA, and the battle of the supposed brainwashers. It’s much more uncomfortable to admit that, well, you and your fellow countrymen just have completely irreconcilable views on certain issues.