PA Bill Number: SB1198
Title: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and ...
Description: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and .. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Last Action Date: May 17, 2024
What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Gun Owners -- This Isn't Even Political :: 06/29/2017
Variety panned the film “War for the Planet of the Apes,” out July 14, as being anti-human, by saying it reduces “the human characters to crass two-dimensional stereotypes” and by detailing how this film gives up the pretense of a plot for special effects (mostly this means we get to see profound emotions expressed on the ape’s faces). This movie gets something else wrong that Variety isn’t likely to pick up on but that millions of gun owners will.
“War for the Planet of the Apes” continues the storyline of humans against human-smart apes. The two side are fighting as two competing city states might have in Ancient Greece, if they had machine guns, laser sights and grenades.
This tale begins when the villain, a man called “the Colonel” (Woody Harrelson), sneaks into Caesar’s (the leading ape and the hero of the movie) hideout to slaughter Caesar’s family. “The attack doesn’t make much strategic sense, costing the Colonel’s team more damage than he inflicts, and yet it’s certainly stunning to behold, as the human soldiers’ green-laser scopes pierce the darkness of Caesar’s base,” says Variety.
Fair enough, but the “green-laser scopes” (you can see this scene in one of the film’s trailers) do look cool as they penetrate the semi-darkness with the team of humans hunting in a set that might have first been used in one of the Jurassic Park movies.
Okay, first of all, people who know their guns don’t call them “green-laser scopes.” They are called “laser sights,” but that’s just Variety’s misuse of jargon. What matters is no one who knows anything about self-defense (or military tactics) would go in with laser sights searching like headlamps in a cave. All that does is alert the enemy. This is why Crimson Trace’s laser sights, for example, have a button (usually located near the trigger) so a person can switch them on and off instantly by just shifting their grip on the gun.
Sure, a police officer or someone doing home defense might depress the button to turn on the laser and thereby warn off or stop an intruder—this could prevent a shootout—but this team was trying to slip in unnoticed.
Also, green lasers have become popular because they can be easier than red lasers to see in daylight, but these aren’t used this way.
