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UPDATE, 6:38 PM: The Office of the Vice-President tonight released a photo of the two and a half hour meeting Thursday at the White House between representatives from the entertainment industry and the VP on gun violence.
PREVIOUSLY, 9:31 AM: Representatives from the entertainment industry will meet with Vice President Joe Biden today as he continues a series of meetings as part of his gun safety task force formed in the wake of the Newtown, CT school shooting. Motion Picture Association of America Chair/CEO Chris Dodd, Comcast 
EVP David L. Cohen, Directors Guild of America Executive Director Jay Roth, Independent Film & Television Alliance President/CEO Jean Prewitt, National Association of Broadcasters CEO Gordon Smith, National Association of Theatre Owners President John Fithian, along with representatives from Branded Entertainment and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association are scheduled to meet with Biden at 6 PM ET, according to a White House statement. Biden also is meeting with representatives of gun advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association, as well as sportsmen and women and wildlife interest groups. Shortly after the Connecticut shooting, President Barack Obama appointed Biden to head a commission to come up with recommendations on gun policy by the end of January.
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Love that no one from the WGA was included. Shows Hollywood truly doesn’t understand that it starts with the script.
So true.
Just like they won’t put a call in to BigPharma–who peddles SSRIs to just about every person with a “problem.”
To me this is perhaps the biggest issue of all yet gets the smallest amount of coverage. These drugs are massively overprescribed and can have deadly effects, both physically (like with Heath Ledger and many others who have died from prescription overdoses, where small amounts of various anti depressants mixed with ambien, alcohol etc. can be fatal) and the obvious negative effects on mental health; they can make people who are simply depressed or anxsious becamse extremely dangerous and violent.
What America needs is a few thousand more guns laws that criminals – and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder – don’t obey, nor are prosecuted for violating.
Brian Terry Ghost SPEAKS THE TRUTH!
All Hollywood has to do is look Joe in the face and say, “You mean the same violent movies that play in Japan and France? Show me their massacres and then maybe we can talk”.
+1
maybe cause it’s illegal to own a gun in japan? Ya think?
Holla.
The hard truth is that most of us watch these movies, play these video games, and read the comic books/novels/etc, but only about .0001 % of people are hardwired psychopaths who will act out. How do you weed out the psychopaths who will act out. That’s a better question.
I agree, this is all just window dressing to take the heat off our incompetent congress and onto someone else. Nothing will change. I will continue to enjoy my horror/violent movies to the fullest extent
UK has same violent movies, violent video games, violent history, and violent people. But strong gun control laws. US gun deaths average 30 per day. UK? 1 every six weeks. There is NO correlation between fictional violence and human slaughter. There is EVERY correlation between freely accessible weapons and gun deaths. This has to be the shortest conversation ever, or everyone involved is deluded beyond hope.
I actually looked these stats up the week after the shooting. First you need to normalize for the population difference, but even after that the US rate is higher (in per 100k population). The interesting stat that popped out is the non-firearm murder rate in the UK is higher.
Scapegoating any narrative media, whether movies or comics or books or theater would be more convincing had Aeschylus not written plays thousands of years ago in which characters had sex with their parents before gouging their eyes out.
Sophocles and Eurpides, too. Darn that Oresteia and its overlap with Elektra (and, by thread drift, Oedipus)! All that nasty, bloody sex and violence just blurs together after awhile!
If Joe Biden really believed that high-capacity magazines were a problem, he would demand that the Secret Service stop using them immediately. How can he say with a straight face that they have no self-defense purpose when he is surrounded by machine-gun touting guards with high-capacity magazines?
Oh…you mean those highly trained individuals whose job it is to protect the Vice President from the untrained, unregulated non-militia members?
Think before you speak, fanboy.
Seriously. John’s comment was one of the most ludicrous comments and best examples of failed logic I’ve seen in quite some time.
God I’m sick of these hysterical reactionary idiots! Guns are evil, movies are evil, video games are evil!
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s about parents you idiots! Parents who either don’t parent or who wanna treat their kids like “best friends.” (Yeah, worked wonders for Lindsey Lohan.)
It’s about a lack of basic mental health services. (because we must of course spend billions of dollars rebuilding mansions on barrier islands instead. Here’s a tip, dipshits. They’re called “barrier islands” for a reason.)
I’m off to crank up my “violence-inducing” Die Hard collection on my home theater. To be followed promptly by Sin City, the Last Boyscout, Pulp Fiction, and Looper (the REAL BEST PICTURE of 2012)
And if the hyper-sensitive members of the “morality police” at the White House or Hollywood don’t like it, they’re all cordially invited suck my ass.
P.S.: No Dark Knight for best cinematography? With 70 minutes shot in native IMAX?! Yeah, that’s bullshit awards season politics for you. Fuck you academy.
We live in a culture that likes to kill people (albeit not all of us). We sanction the death penalty, go to war and kill hundreds of thousands for no reason what so ever and yes, we watch people killed on TV and video games for entertainment. So yes, every once in a while, a mentally disturbed person is going to say to themselves “I want to Kill someone too.”
I for one am glad this is happening. I’m in exile from the overly violent movies. There are several coming out next year (Gangster Squad) I will.not.see….because I’m tired of the body counts.
While we”re at it, how about controlling the borders to Mexico. The mass gun murders there are all made with guns bought in the US which freely cross the border unchecked. Arms profits are clearly more important than lives to the US.
why is there one woman here. typical.