“A Quiet Place” deserves its rave reviews. But its pro-gun message is troubling

[Duke Nukem]

How does the entire reason people keep guns out in the country equate to insane Oregon wilderness survivalist propaganda?

Because only dumb inbred rednecks own guns or live in the country #woke

 

[The Big Vivs]

Because only dumb inbred rednecks own guns or live in the country #woke

Are you telling me that America, the nonsensical pro-gun land of imperialism populated entirely by fair-skinned European usurpers, isn't full of dumb, inbred, firearm-owning rednecks? I don't buy it, no sir.

 

[c-no]

Spoiler: Possible movie spoilers?

Ah yes, of course, because the alien creatures who kill anything at the slightest of sounds will listen to your negotiations. The same aliens who've killed innocent creatures such as raccoons and a child playing with a toy rocket. Yep. They will undoubtedly listen to reason.

Get bent, author.

Author is pretty funny typing this out:

One of the fondest fantasies of Second Amendment obsessives is that a private citizen with a box of ammunition could fend off the US Army, should the need arise, and that fantasy is endorsed by “A Quiet Place”, in which gun-toting farmers fare better against the aliens than the entire American war machine. Defenders of the right to bear arms will also see flattering reflections of themselves in the film’s heroes, a photogenic white family that lives on a backwoods farm.

The line "gun-toting farmers fare better than the American war machine" gets me. A group of four people manage to beat them dang dirty aliens despite the fact he typed earlier that most of the human race was eaten. Yeah this somehow affirms some fantasy. Also funny is the "flattering reflection" part. Don't really see how the family is a flattering reflection if (from the trailers) all they can do is try to keep quiet and survive a world full of aliens that manged to kill off almost every human being.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Are you telling me that America, the nonsensical pro-gun land of imperialism populated entirely by fair-skinned European usurpers, isn't full of dumb, inbred, firearm-owning rednecks? I don't buy it, no sir.

I think you missed the "only" part, you see, SJWs have done more to perpetuate negative stereotypes than any other group in recent history. It's indeed quite ironic.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Coming up next: why sci-fi films that have aliens as the baddies are racist dog-whistles to the alt-right.

Don't really see how the family is a flattering reflection if (from the trailers) all they can do is try to keep quiet and survive a world full of aliens that manged to kill off almost every human being.

Because it implies that white people have a future #Whitegenocide2k18 #Whitegenocidenow #fuckwhypipo

 

[Red Hood]

One of the fondest fantasies of Second Amendment obsessives is that a private citizen with a box of ammunition could fend off the US Army, should the need arise, and that fantasy is endorsed by “A Quiet Place”, in which gun-toting farmers fare better against the aliens than the entire American war machine.

This might be the most retarded thing anyone has ever said about the Second Amendment, and that's saying something.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

I too remember how the technologically superior US easily and effortlessly steamrolled the opposition in places like Vietnam and Iraq

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

I too remember how the technologically superior US easily and effortlessly steamrolled the opposition in places like Vietnam and Iraq

Those are PoC countries, they have their melenated superpowers to explain that.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I wonder how they will feel about the Michael Douglas movie Falling Down since that has a white guy with guns he took from Latinos.

 

[Lipitor]

So I just came back from this movie... The setting is literally a remote farm, a few hours a way from very small new england town. The weapon they own is a common pump action shotgun, probably a Browning BPS or something. Not something all that uncommon in a rural area. It also isn't super effective in the movie.

I do agree the NRA literally exists just to be a hugbox for conservative gun owners, to sperg and posture around with their guns to feel powerful. Instead of what it should be, which to educate voters in areas who where there is low gun ownership, that most gun owners are super responsible and don't commit crimes with them. However, that being said I don't think this movie portrays gun ownership as the belligerent redneck power fantasy trope.

 

[AnOminous]

I do agree the NRA literally exists just to be a hugbox for conservative gun owners, to sperg and posture around with their guns to feel powerful.

It's more of an industry lobby. All it really cares is pumping out and selling as many guns as imaginable. That's why they take irrational and seemingly insane positions that alienate a large part of the population. Of course the interest of those who want to buy guns coincides to some degree with the interests of those who want to sell them, but they aren't the same interest. The NRA has routinely blocked things that even a majority of its own members agree with, like actually effectively enforcing the background check laws already in place.

 

[Lipitor]

It's more of an industry lobby. All it really cares is pumping out and selling as many guns as imaginable. That's why they take irrational and seemingly insane positions that alienate a large part of the population. Of course the interest of those who want to buy guns coincides to some degree with the interests of those who want to sell them, but they aren't the same interest. The NRA has routinely blocked things that even a majority of its own members agree with, like actually effectively enforcing the background check laws already in place.

It's so weird how they work.. they're not funded by industry, but by their customers.. And they pay in to the fear.