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Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

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1. I noticed the ads my local NPR affiliate for this film completely suppressed the gun angle,

Reply to TupperHappy (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:13 AM

Dec 2016

knowing that mentioning it would be a huge turn-off. Even most fence-sitters wouldn't be too interested in paying $40 to sit through two hours of preaching.

IIRC, the ad portrayed as a "high-powered lobbyist decides to buck the establishment" story, which it most certainly isn't.

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Gun-control propaganda film Miss Sloane a historic box-office bomb [View all] TupperHappy Dec 2016 OP

I noticed the ads my local NPR affiliate for this film completely suppressed the gun angle, benEzra Dec 2016 #1

Heh. "High powered lobbyist...bucks establishment." Or, "fat guy goes after Hersheys." Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #4

These films aren't expected to make money. Kotya Dec 2016 #2

I didn't realize it was produced by the same people who did the Taken series. Geez. benEzra Dec 2016 #3

Inoculation? As a Navy Pharmacist's Mate said about an all-night fuck-a-thon in Subic Bay... Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #5