Samuel L Jackson has been public about
supporting Hillary for president. He says he's a lifelong Evil Party man, in his own words, and "civil rights activist" since the '60s. (Well, he didn't say "Evil Party", but you get my drift). Sounds like the typical Hollywood leftist type, right? Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn come to mind. I ordinarily wouldn't expect much common sense from someone with that background. Then I ran across this:
A pro-gun Democrat? Or, at least, one that's not doctrinaire gun control advocate, and that seems to understand it's the people, not the guns. He also is
quoted as having said,
Parents and role models who emphasize that value, he said, will
accomplish more than legislators reducing the number of firearms.
Gee, personal responsibility? Parents teaching values and especially the value of life? Who would ever think that? I mean, besides virtually every gun owner and every conservative.
Considering how so many of his movies are known for glorifying guns for control and violence, is it just self-serving? Anyone know if he's a gun owner?
I thought they were ALL gunowners .. They just dont want us to have them .
ReplyDeleteWhile I cannot applaud his political position, I'm more than happy to agree with his assessment of values and personal responsibility as key in the gun rights debate. There really ought not to be a debate; to misqoute the AGW crowd "the law is settled". 2A is clear and is part of the supreme law of the land, but we in the right need to stress how our values and personal responsibility are part of why we bear arms.
ReplyDeleteAs others have said, they keep telling us that Obamacare is "settled law", so we shouldn't try to get rid of it. That piece o' crap law hasn't been in place 10 years. The 2A has been settled for over 220 years, but they keep trying to get rid of that.
DeleteI would like to know when he supposedly said that and to whom he said it. You can't trust what liberals say even though it is said "even a blind squirrel find a nut every once and awhile." Obummer has set race relations back something serious in this country as part of his implementation of Alinsky and Cloward-Piven tactics. And black actors like S.L. Jackson, among others, have truly shown their racist attitudes under the cover of "we gotz to be nice to da black man" since Obummer became da man. There are only a few "black" actors who I really respect because they really are masters of their craft. Denzel Washington comes to mind. And he doesn't have a chip on his shoulder. If you look at the body of work that Jackson has done, he really is more of a "one trick pony." But because he is black, he gets more points for emoting black anger, hatred and passion. His last movie, Hateful8 was IMHO, terrible and I was disappointed in Tarantino also. Pathetic and yet the film got high marks that leave me wondering what it was I missed. Same-same.
ReplyDeleteFair enough. If you go to the second link in the piece that's answered, but it's dated December 16, 2012, and by looking at other articles that list that quote, it appears to be in response to his movie "Django Unchained" which was released around then. The movie was famously violent and the predictable response was to criticize him for showing guns in the movie. His answer could be seen to be entirely self-serving, which is why I said that in the last paragraph.
DeletePersonally, I don't rate him highly as an actor although he makes a good Nick Fury. I don't think much of Tarantino as director, either, so you can conclude I didn't see Hateful8. As you mention, I respect Denzel Washington, and I'll add Morgan Freeman, and Will Smith, too.
If you look into Jackson, you'll find that he has criticized Obama for "trying to relate", telling him to just be a leader. See The Guardian. I'd give a language warning, but it is Samuel L Jackson.