Tag: Batman

“The Dark Knight Rises”: Arise, capitalism and freedom….

September 26, 2018July 30, 2012

Has anyone seen The Dark Knight Rises? I haven’t. Not that I have anything against Batman. It’s just not a movie that was on my A-List (and nothing need be said about the killings last week in Colorado; this is about the movie, not the apparently insane killer).

Now it is.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, novelist and PJ Media contributor Andrew Klavan has a fascinating interpretation of the movie. In the Journal column, Batman Battles the Politics of Resentment Klavan shows the movie to be “a bold apologia for free-market capitalism [and] a graphic depiction of the tyranny and violence inherent in every radical leftist movement….”

And the Kool-Aid Drinking Gun Control Crowd Continues To Pile it On

September 26, 2018July 29, 2012

by Rick Olson

“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.” —Aaron McGruder

James Holmes entered a movie theater and started “throwing shots,” injuring fifty-eight people and killing twelve others. I need not give a full narrative of the tragedy, given the ongoing coverage on television, radio, internet and print media.

In the aftermath of this tragedy, the usual crowd quickly stepped up to politicize the event, calling for stricter measures on firearms ownership. The same old reliable liberal crows now grandstanding and blustering in the congressional well. Leading the charge is none other than NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Batman, culture, guns….freedom vs safety / security…..Second Amendment vs “Responsible” – Part 3: “You don’t need that” Doodling

September 26, 2018July 23, 2012

by Skip

Every Sunday I watch pretty much the all the talking heads / pundits Sunday morning shows (isn’t DVR a wonderful thing?) and easily the topic of the day was the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado at that midnight showing of the latest Batman movies (Part 1 on my thoughts, specifically on irresponsibility of ABC here, Part 2 on my thoughts on responsible concealed carry here). It was rather predictable in content and in slant – I knew that just about all of the Liberals would kvetch about getting more gun control into our laws. Unfortunately, I was not disappointed as my low expectations were met. In almost all cases, the concern (and rightly so) was about safety and security. The problem for me (and I figure that some commenters are ready to pull the trigger on this) is they have placed safety and security above all else but refuse to acknowledge how much government would have to do in order to actually achieve it.

The line of thought, however, was especially clear on ABC’s This Week, hosted by one half of that dubious TEA Party smearer duo and Democrat rumpswab, George Stephanopolous (and I kept waiting to see if the apology would be offered again but to no avail). It can be summed up by: “You don’t need that“.