Justifying my hatred for Macgyver
Ok I guess I hit a nerve with my Macgyver comments. Pacifist gun hating freak...
Ok Sherman lets set the wayback machine for 1985.
Macguyver
Plot Synopsis: Angus Macgyver is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on his missions.
In the fourth season of the iconic series, adventurer and part-time government agent Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) continues to solve problems with the contents of his mind rather than those of a gun. Containing episodes like "Blood Brothers" (where flashbacks reveal the origins of Mac's anti-gun philosophy)
Gunz 'N Boyz
Mac and the Challenger Club try to help a boy prepared to take the rap for another boy murdered by weapons dealers exploiting the fear and suspicion in the neighborhood.
This is the episode where the legal gun dealers say they have the second amendment right to own and sell guns. MacGuyver goes on a 10 minute tirade about how the Second Amendment only applies to the national guard, not death peddling freaks.
Pretty much every episode MacGuyver spouts something about hating guns.
Don't know much about Richard Dean Anderson except he is on The List .
posted by Bill Rowland @ August 23, 2006
5 Comments
5 Comments:
I will admit that I'm really only familiar with MacGuyver as a cultural icon. I think I saw maybe 15 minutes of the show when I was little, and I've seen two or three episodes as an adult. But I do know that Richard Dean Anderson is a supporter of gun control under the guise of "sensible gun laws", so I thought you were associating the opinions of the actor with the character. My mistake. I apologize. I was wrong... mark it on the calender.
The really sad thing here is that someone as hot as Richard Dean Anderson could never be worthy of me because I can't depend on him to defend and protect me. Just makes me want to cry.
Well you can still depend on him to defend you with his paper clip and rubber band.
I will concede one point.
In an episode circa 1987 Macgyver did use a gun. He took a revolver from a bad guy removed the cylinder and used the frame as a wrench to close a valve on a nuclear power plant saving the world from a radioactive catastrophy.
OK, so he supports gun control. So do I. That is why I don't drink very often, it is real hard to control your gun when the world won't stay still.
Still, for a guy who wants to prevent gun violence, he sure doesn't seem to have an issue with them on Stargate.
I have my own issues with guns in America, but trust me when I say it has little to do with guns themselves (I could field strip and reassemble my M16 and my 9mm each in a few minutes, and I loved shooting them both, plus the unit M-60) and more to do with irresponsible owners and dealers who give the rest of us a bad name.
I agree with you scientist. Its the people not the inanimate objects that cause all the problems.
Sadly, in this world where nothing is anyones fault, people must place blame on something other than themselves..and when that doesn't work do it some more.
My father made it very clear to me when I was little that a gun will not jump up and start randomly shooting people. He took me out to shoot so I would see exactly what a gun would do if I aimed it at someone. (I say "aimed" because he also taught me you don't aim it unless you're going to pull the trigger.) He then promised me that if I ever got caught fooling around with one of his guns, I wouldn't be able to sit down again until my 30th birthday.
I'm not willing to share my dad, but maybe a few others could just take some hints from him. Gun control was never a problem in our house.
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