From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 19:31:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.nc.rr.com (fe1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D873237BACB for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:31:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from SATURN98 ([24.25.17.94]) by mail1.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:31:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:34:24 -0500 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8940.000329@nc.rr.com> To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and In-reply-To: <20000329235951.A1488@parish> References: <20000329235951.A1488@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG MO> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:52:17PM -0500, Neill Robins wrote: >> >> The few times I have been in that situation, here in the States, it >> >> was a knife they pulled. I would have preferred they pulled a gun; they >> >> would have been easier to disarm with less risk. But, they don't show >> >> that in the movies, either. >> >> TL> Agreed. >> >> TL> It's also a fact that most handgun echanges take place at close >> TL> range, without anyone getting hit for an insanely large number >> TL> of rounds fired. That's isn't very exciting to watch in a >> TL> theater, either, since you are really waiting for Mel Gibson >> TL> to shoot the thugs in a subplot, and then get back onto the >> TL> main story line... >> >> I cannot remember when a movie ever well represented real life. >> And I hope they never do, that would be boring. >> MO> Whilst it's true that the movies and TV do portray, to outsiders at MO> least, America as a country full of gun-toting loonies most of us can MO> separate Hollywood fantasy from fact. MO> Obviously the Dirty Harry films, for instance, are just pure MO> Hollywood, however I always felt that Hill Street Blues (one of the 3 MO> best TV series to come out of the US, IMHO) was a fairly realistic MO> view of life in that particular environment (big city suburb). Whilst MO> there was a lot of gun-play it did show the police behaving in a MO> sensible, restrained manner in that they always tried to negotiate a MO> peaceful end to an armed siege situation for example, albeit mixed with MO> a bit of "artistic licence" such as Belker wanting to bite everyone he MO> arrested and Hunter wanting to go in guns a-blazing at every MO> opportunity. MO> Was it really realistic? Comments from US citizens would be MO> interesting. MO> BTW, am I correct in thinking that it was filmed around Chicago? >> Isn't always fun to see how some white guy can simultaneously take on >> couple Ninjas? >> Well, I guess they have come a long way with respect to TV series. The likes of 'E.R.' have changed the way people expect more reality on TV. I just find that movies are so far off from reality, which is good in most cases in my book, that they are almost comical. Of course, I find realism in 'Seinfeld', whatever that says for me! -- Best regards, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message