[High Praise! to 4of7]
From the 1986 TV Movie “The Right of the People” [NOTE: there’s another good part in here about going from a liberal to a conservative in 45 seconds when confronted with reality (starts at 1:41), but I’m just going for the pro-gun rousing speech here, which – unfortunately – gets cut off prior to its conclusion in this clip]:
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #408)
The irony here is that the movie itself was actually just gun-control propaganda. As one reviewer put it:
Of course, what ends up happening is that every little verbal spat ends up in a shooting, and the town is in chaos. The POINT, as if no one can figure it out, is that guns turn otherwise rational people into mentally depraved, frothy murderous lunatics.
It was a silly display. Just because you CAN kill someone doesn’t mean you’d try, no matter how flippant he’s being about your fender-bender. Most people know the difference between a heated argument and lethal violence; even if they’d be inclined to throw a punch, they’re not going to take it to the level of death.
Much to the producers’ chagrin, of course, subsequent to the movie, many states liberalized their carry laws, and instead of this morass of carnage, crime in each of those states experienced an immediate, dramatic, and permanent drop in crime.
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I hunted for more clips from the movie, but that’s all I could find.
There were several scenes I liked, although the over-all tone of the film was anti-gun.
Still, it’s funny in retrospect how that debate turned out.
Maybe Hollywood should make more movies warning the public about the horrors that will occur if Conservatives have their way; like balanced budgets, politicians being held criminally liable for enriching themselves at public expense, or the US military actually being allowed to win wars.