milosz wrote:It's vaguely hypocritical. They condemn gun violence, unless of they can stand to make a buck out of glorifying it.
This is like arguing that anyone involved with Dexter must, to avoid hypocrisy, not be opposed to serial killing.
I think that's a similar analogy, but it's different context and thus not the same comparison. Gun violence in this case is a frequently recurring theme in "journalism" and proposed public policy that it warrants more discretion from its proponents and opponents.
Gun violence/gun control is obviously a debated and complex issue. However, it's not uncommon to see it coupled with criticisms of violence in the media (i.e., movies, TV, video games). I'm sure you're aware of the logic: people grow up exposed to violence in media and are therefore more violent, same people have easy access to guns, gun violence therefore more likely. Generalized and maybe over simplified, but not an uncommon coupling of the two issues.
Just for example:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/res ... e-killings (just an article)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8827261 (abstract only, but look at what is contained. I'm not digging through the journal to get it in full, as nobody cares)
Only two small examples, but whatever. It isn't hard to find both topics mentioned in the same breath. If celebrities are speaking out against gun violence like they are here, they're associated with the same crowd. And that's why they should just sit back and shut the fuck up.
