Some of these movies are pretty poor choices for advocating gun control. C’mon, The Terminator? Going from being the legend to the moralistic cautionary tale has not always been that successful in curtailing abhorant human behavior, not on Planet Earth anyway. Besides, California went on to make that gun-crazed Musclehead their Governator.

On the plus-side of this equation, though, sits Chris Rock. He raises a very poignant point. Life can be ended at too cheap a cost. We really need to raise the price of bullets to $15K per bullet. Then regulate bullets more fiercely than we currently regulate bomb-grade Uranium.

I think Hollywood has made a great living off of contrived representations of violence, there’s a dispute as to whether or not violent media promotes interpersonal violence, I think there is a connection, call it, ‘monkey see, monkey do’ for lack of a better descriptor, I won’t ever go to sit-down movie again, though, getting mugged at the ticket booth, there.

The title of this article is ambiguous and the examples don’t make any kind of case for gun control. Are these supposed to be films that advocate gun control, or show us that gun control is a good idea—or, films that show horrors of gun violence and should therefore make us in favor of gun control? The only one that I know of that supports and advocates gun control is Bowling for Columbine, but that’s obvious.  I fail to see how “A History of Violence” is “in favor of gun control”. It shows a good, nice guy, performing a heroic act of self defense with a gun.  Sure, it shows us that violence is bad and ugly, but we all know that. After seeing this, some kid might think, “hey, I should learn how to use a gun. Then I might someday be able to defend myself like that cool guy in A History of Violence.”