Completely OT : Cannes, Mickael Moore and the Iraq War

[dogscoff]

Very glad to find someone from the same advice as me. It really seemed to me the film was more a charge versus US media system than versus the NRA.

Yes, it was, definitely. It's raises some very interesting questions about why gun crime is so high in the USA, when other countries with similar gun ownership laws and levels - Canada being the prime example - have figures so much lower.

Moore himself is a gun-owner who goes hunting and for a long time was a fully paid up member of the NRA. He only started attacking Heston because he objected to the policy of holding huge pro-gun rallies immediately after school-massacres in the towns where the killings had taken place. Some kid would shoot a bunch of students and teachers, and within a week Heston would be in that same town waving his gun around and making contraversial speeches. Of course he has every right to make those speeches, but the insensitivity of his timing is just mind-boggling.

It wasn't the guns that Moore objected to wrt heston, it was the fact that he showed such a blatant lack of compassion.

And just for the record, i get a good laugh every time I hear someone on this thread mention the president of the NRA and the word "defenceless" in the same sentence.