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   Bill Maher had a simple point to make on Friday night’s “Real   
   Time” about what everyone is talking about these days:   
   accountability for the onslaught of mass shootings in the   
   country. Is it the person pulling the trigger, the lack of gun   
   control laws, mental illness, etc? The comedian-host agrees it’s   
   all of the above — but adds Hollywood’s glorification of guns   
   and gun violence to the list.   
      
   “Now that we live in an age of uber-corporate responsibility,   
   where every large company in America bends over backwards to get   
   on the politically correct side of every issue, Hollywood has to   
   tell us why doesn’t that include gun violence,” the comedian   
   said.   
      
   Illustrating his point with a quick-cut montage of gunfire in a   
   bunch of action-adventure films, he continued with his thought.   
      
   “When liberals scream ‘do something!’ after a mass shooting, why   
   aren’t we also dealing with the fact that the average American   
   kid sees 200,000 acts of violence on screens before the age of   
   18 and that, according to the FBI, one of the warning signs of a   
   potential school shooter is a fascination with violence-filled   
   entertainment?” he asked. “It’s funny, Hollywood is the wokest   
   place on Earth in every other area of social responsibility…but   
   when it comes to the unbridled romanticization of gun violence:   
   crickets. Weird, the only thing we don’t call a trigger is the   
   one that actually has a trigger.”   
      
   Maher drew a direct line from films built around “one guy who’s   
   the hero getting over a grudge by mowing down a multitude of   
   human beings.”   
      
   Yeah, many “impressionable” young men find that exciting and   
   want to imitate that, he said. Mass shootings are happening more   
   and more these days and no solution to the problem seems to be   
   in sight because of the unyielding political divide. Maher   
   pulled out a pie chart that showed what appeared to be at the   
   root of many of them.   
      
   “Broken young men who feel like losers and want the world to   
   hurt like they do,” Maher began reading the list. “Easy access   
   to guns; kids having smartphones, which makes losers feel even   
   worse because of the bullying and all the fake lives that look   
   better than theirs; and, yes, yes, crazy amounts of gun violence   
   and movies and TV.”   
      
   “We don’t show movie characters smoking anymore because it might   
   look cool and influence children, but you’re telling me these   
   cool dudes don’t influence them?” he said, showing more clips   
   of, yup, guys looking cool randomly shooting.   
      
   “They say the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will be a great   
   boost to Navy pilot recruitment. Great. But then you can’t say   
   it’s just a movie when it’s this,” Maher concluded with clips of   
   more excessive gun violence in film and TV shows.   
      
   You can watch Bill Maher’s entire “New Rules” in the video at   
   the top.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/bill-maher-hollywood-unbridled-   
   romanticization-185623818.html   
      
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