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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo I watched "The Purge" last night. Is that what we can expect next from Ammosexuals?
Let's face it - it's just another low-budget horror flick that happened to have some decent cast members in it like Ethan Hawke. I was bored and thought 'why not, let's watch it'.
The concept was pretty simple. In a near future USA the crime rate is low and unemployment is low. It is like this because once a year for 12 hours all crime is legal. The 'Purge' allows Americans to release their anger and kill whomever. And yes you guessed it - the wealthy barricade themselves in homes with high tech defense systems while the purgers tend to kill those who are poor.
So I have to wonder this - could this type of America one day happen? I mean I live in a country where I can carry my high-powered automatic weapon that is equipped with an oversized magazine filled with bullets while buying coffee and shopping for cheap clothes. And in many states I can kill an unarmed person if I just scream the words 'I'm standing my ground'. Basically we have legal human hunting in this state and the GOP is making it easier for everyone to participate.
So the concept of a 'purge' in the United States - if we let the NRA/Tea Party Ammosexuals have their way I could see this happening.
Maybe in the movies it's 'American' to purge but in RL what the NRA is doing is wrong.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)jazzed up with guns and car crashes.
It will be a yawner for most people.
The "ammosexuals" won't be law abiding enough to restrict mayhem to one day a year. Until this country takes the problem seriously, the bodies will continue to pile up.
Every gun owner is a law abiding gun owner until he's not.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)A sequel comes this Summer.
beevul
(12,194 posts)How many remain law abiding vs not?
Or don't they matter?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)That one was a 1%er wet dream about purging the 99%. Your basic story was that the Mayan calendar shtick was real, and the world was going to undergo some major cataclysm, in this case some sort of crustal rearrangement that would cause supervolcanos to pop up, cities to drop into giant chasms, and storm surge massive enough to wipe countries out. Scientists working for a couple of governments figured it out in advance, and the power elites - the plutocrats and their governmental and military syncophants - had worked out a deal to build a set of incredibly massive 'arks', each big enough to hold circa 100k people, and when things were starting, to all be choppered in to ride out the destruction in safety while the rest of humanity was wiped off the face of the planet.
The movie plotline centered around one failed writer who happened to be working as a chauffeur for a Russian oligarch finding out and doing all sorts of incredible 'race against destruction' type things to get his ex-wife and kids onto one of the arks. I guess the audience was supposed to be super happy that a handful of non-oligarch types were saved from destruction, but the real message that came through was that when the chips are down, the rich and powerful will do all they can to save their own butts and leave the rest of us to die horribly.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Wondering about their ability to repopulate the planet and who they expected to do all of the hard and dangerous work for them in their new world.
If you want civilization to survive, you have to save workers, dreamers, and thinkers, not just elderly billionaires.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)Not a plan.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)The book is much better.
I do not think things are as bad as you think. Some people, stores, and businesses are starting to reject the open carry groups. Beyond that, some of the open carry groups are starting to back down. Just yesterday one of the groups said it would no longer fight against businesses that did not want them to bring their guns into their stores.
This is sad, but it seems you can only kill unarmed black youth/people. A few months ago a man was convicted of murder after he killed to unarmed white youth who had broken into his house. So, in my opinion, the only purge that would be allowed in America is a purge of the African-American community.