By Onan Coca
In a completely unoriginal, and stale format several of Hollywood’s most popular celebrities take to the small screen in an effort to condescend to Americans about guns.
(When I say condescend, I mean they absolutely think we are idiots. In one scene, the celebrities in the video actually imply that contacting your representatives can be hard or confusing to do. It’s as if they think that most Americans are complete morons who desperately need Hollywood to explain life to us.)
Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Sheryl Crow, Adam Scott, Laura Dern, and others come together and explain to Americans that guns are bad and the NRA is evil and we must call Congress to stop the madness.
In a video titled #RejecttheNRA, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s favorite anti-gun group, Everytown, has taken to demonizing an organization that is actually made up of millions of law abiding American citizens.
In typical Everytown fashion, the PSA does not present real solutions to the attack in Vegas–after all, the attacker complied with all gun controls, including background checks, so no new law would have stopped him.
Even gun control advocate Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) admitted as much on the October 8 airing of Face the Nation. Therefore, in lieu of a substantive position, the celebrities are urging Americans to call Congress and oppose things that had nothing to do with the Las Vegas attack.
“The mass shooting in Las Vegas has all of us grieving, scared and angry,” Stone opens the video. From here, various other celebrities appear, telling people to text “REJECT” to Everytown.
They inform viewers that the gun control group will call those who text, give them contact numbers for lawmakers, and “give [them] guidelines” on what to say when they talk to their lawmakers.
Republished with permission Constitution.com
Viewpoints expressed herein are of the article’s author(s), or of the person(s) or organization(s) quoted or linked therein, and do not necessarily represent those of The Olive Branch Report
Subscribe to my daily newsletter, and join hundreds of daily readers and receive news and relevant commentary
Don't forget to follow The Olive Branch Report on Facebook and Twitter. Now available on your Amazon Kindle Device. Please help spread the word about us, share our articles on your favorite social networks.
If you value what you see on The Olive, please consider donating, any amount helps. We derive NO revenue from this site, and upkeep is expensive.
Onan is the Editor-in-Chief at Liberty Alliance media group. He’s also the managing editor at Eaglerising.com, Constitution.com and the managing partner at iPatriot.com. You can read more of his writing at Eagle Rising.
Onan is a graduate of Liberty University (2003) and earned his M.Ed. at Western Governors University in 2012. Onan lives in Atlanta with his wife and their three wonderful children.
Connect With Us