Gun Gripes #253: "Looney Tunes Bans Guns, Cancel Culture & More"

welcome back everybody this is Eric and Chad here with our right veteran 8888 today we've got another gun gripe episode for you all right this one's a doozy and it has to do with fuds no more fuss to be exact and Elmer apparently has lost his double-barrel shotgun and an unfortunate hunting accident or maybe it's actually just the executives deciding that it's politically incorrect for him to have a shotgun to hunt rabbits so we're gonna dive into this and I definitely would like to take a moment to thank the kind folks at SDI for supporting gun gripes they have some wonderful programs on firearms technology some great higher education in the way of that put that GI bill to work for you they are a great group of people definitely worth looking into alright so why should anybody care what type of weapon a cartoon character has okay well the short answer extremely short answer is that cartoons represent a microcosm of what is going on in our society at any one given time right cartoons have always represented the societal things that are going on and our responses to that sometimes our fears and our and our joys right get immortalized in cartoons right you know back when Looney Tunes was initially a thing and it's been around a long time hunting culture was a huge part of you know our heritage and cartoon artists at the time of course would include that type of stuff within their cartoons right and a lot of our you know the Americana surrounding cartoons as well is I'm sure many people remember being a young person sitting around you know the TV on Saturday morning with grandpa and laughing at Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd trying to get Bugs Bunny and laughing that Roadrunner getting away from the wily coyote and laughing at you so many say I'm shooting this guns in the air and it's just gun culture is a part of Americana like it is America so by taking Elmer Fudd shotgun away it's actually doing much more than simply just some pandering to a political view it's actually defeating the americana of why Elmer Fudd even existed in the first place to begin with okay Walt Disney also early on was commissioned to draw war films that depicted you know the propaganda going on Nazi Germany so you know Walt Disney you know of course cartoons again representing the time's right representing what was going on at the times and using cartoons as a medium to express those emotions to express the things that are going on in the world I mean look at South Park look at Simpsons you know this South Park's very politically incorrect there are many things they make fun of everybody but why is South Park so successful because it's funny and because people like to laugh at each other's misfortunes a little bit and they also like to laugh at their own misfortunes when you know Matt and Trey call out someone on their bullcrap and it happens to be you and you're watching it you kind of get a chuckle like well that was at my expense because they're kind of making fun of rednecks but at the same time it's like you know what that's funny sometimes cartoons just have to be funny and they have to make us feel a certain way but at the end of the day it cartoons are to kind of escape reality a little bit but with like a slight edge of what's really going on in the world around you but when you take that away when you remove the relevance of Americana from something as iconic as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd what direction have we gone to allow that you know downhill so the removal of like firearms from cartoons and stuff it's not something that's exactly brand new I mean you know firearms have been out of the the public's eye as far as like you know children's programming for a long time because of cultural shifts and suppose it you know like changing the public's perception of firearms and firearms owners and gun violence this gun violence epidemic no they're trying to they're trying to push that so all it is is just it's 100% propaganda there propagandizing cartoons today just like they used to you know but today it's got a definite different feel to it okay and now it's just pandering to this like leftist agenda it's it's it's just saying okay well you're not thick-skinned enough to be able to handle the truth you know or be able to handle a cartoon which is fantasy you know and a cartoon character you know shooting and missing you know the protagonists that you have the antagonist which is Elmer Fudd you have the protagonist which is Bugs Bunny shooting them missing all the time Bugs Bunny always escaping and getting the upper hand on Elmer Fudd you know you you can't look at that like these adults that that that say okay we need to take these guns away they can't look at that with with a little bit of what's the word I'm looking for another haven't humility brevity yeah there that's perfect word and just say oh well this is gonna teach kids that that violence is okay and gun violence is okay well what about all the Acme anvils and the the dynamite and the explosives and throw objects I mean what about all this other violence I mean if you want to talk about violence and cartoons then you might as well just take it all out it reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where they removed all violence from itchy and scratchy and the kids were like you know what about Marvin and Martin trying to blow up her I mean I mean he's trying to blow up the entire planet you don't see them taking Marvin the Martians you know earth-shattering kaboom device no words the earth shattering cover room I mean I just I I don't understand the I don't understand what the public outcry is I mean where is this giant public outcry that guns need to be removed from cartoons it seems like nowadays one or two people on social media can voice some kind of complaint that's really unwarranted and it's only an emotional response it has nothing based in logic or just common sense whatsoever and immediately they feel all this heat and like oh one person doesn't like this let's change this let's remove these guns because they're bad oh no its political pandering and it's best and it's just it's these double standards that you see all the times like let's take guns out but let's keep the violence because the violence was grandfathered in right we have a gun problem in this country or do we have a like violence problem in this country just in general I mean well now Elmer Fudd has a well that's okay the newest episode he has a scythe yeah yeah here's the site and look I read an article on that and it's like why did they why did you choose a scythe oh well because it's not a commonly used item in America for violence what oh so now you're just gonna give all these kids ideas like man I'm gonna grow up and get me a scythe and go around cooking I don't think it's like that at all okay so simile Sam is having his guns taken away to see gonna catch my eye like slow flow a slowpoke Rodriguez cuz every time that cat would get him you know he pull out his gun boom shoot the cat yeah like Oh slowpoke Rodriguez he packed a gun you know it's like so funny so the thing about Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd that is so odd too is that you know so here's Elmer Fudd unloading on Bugs Bunny and missing him all the time so you get the benefit of you know getting to see some you know cool guns and you know see him run around shooting everything I mean kids love guns of course that's just part of it I mean and think about kids growing up when we grew up it was perfectly common you know yeah you're somebody say i'm marvin the martian you know elmer fudd and watching all of that stuff and then getting into the Simpsons and like itchy and scratchy and they were always doing all kind of violent things to each other you know you'd look at video games and you look at all the stuff that's going on video games and these video games are getting more realistic the weapons are getting very very realistic and I don't think that's a big deal right I run into a lot of young people now that have been raised on video games right violent video games okay that can probably tell me more about random guns than I even know and I'm a gun guy and so to say that Oh Firearms shouldn't have a place in our culture or they shouldn't have a place in pop culture or they shouldn't have a place in in cartoon culture that's just completely erroneous because these cartoons these video games these movies all the things that surround pop culture means mean lower whatever it is a microcosm of American culture alright someone has to create that mean someone has to create that movie that video game that cartoon right a person created that all the cartoon or movie or media is is a representation of how we feel with that given time so there's gonna come a time in history 100 years from now when someone's gonna look back and go yeah well that was when Looney Tunes went politically correct but it doesn't mean that Elmer Fudd doesn't use a shotgun because he does he is a hunter he is hunting rabbits you hunt rabbits with a shotgun that is perfectly normal at the time that Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd were originally originally thought of everybody hunted it was just a common thing it wasn't a big deal every household had guns kids loved guns back then and the end the thing is I like to look at it as like this silent majority type of thing right the media and social media and all of these various outlets they make it almost borderline criminal for you to express your concern or your thoughts over something that they might disagree with they label you with any name under the Sun right so you get crucified you get crucified on social media for speaking the truth just an if it if it doesn't line up with their belief system and this canceled culture that has been created as a result is literally point straight to things like Elmer Fudd and and you somebody say I'm losing their guns and the cartoons it so if they can't beat you with logic they simply just have to cancel your culture so it's it's literally camps canceled culture at its finest in terms of how this thing ends up working out the issue is though is that we wind up having to be silent over it and we're scared that you know say say what needs to be said for fear of being called this or that and I think that there are a lot more young people that are into guns and that love guns and families that understand and respect firearms at least at a very minimum from the standpoint of safety and just having a basic gun in the home maybe for self-defense and maybe occasional go out and hunt or something like that there are many more families and households that respect and honor that in the same tradition that they used to then the media and society and especially the mainstream media would have you believe in a million years it's just they're scared to talk about it and and this kind of that silent majority type thing well it's not only that but also like the the people who run these polls and the news organizations that run polls like a lot of polls recently I mean not only recently but also throughout the years you know they're they're skewed one direction or the other and it happens on both sides and it's unfair not to take a sample of a variety of different people especially when it comes to like political things when you're talking about registered voters you've got polls that you know would just go into one particular stronghold either democratic or republican whatever the case is and just pull a thousand people out of there and not even all of them are registered voters so their opinions really don't matter in that particular poll but they still publish that kind of bullcrap on all the time and you know is to give you an idea of like what the public really feels but it's all a lie so with the cartoons like all this political correctness in these cartoons and stuff it always goes back to political pandering and and trying to appease some particular group that I mean really ah and the big scheme of things really doesn't matter you know like it's just a group that tries to put their values on you well why can't I just follow minority yeah why can't we just say okay well you know guns are a thing in this country we have the Second Amendment people own firearms more people are buying guns now with everything going on then in history it seems yeah you know more and more gun owners I mean every single hour of every single day and like gun violence is a problem in the country no violence is a problem guns are the answer you know because especially now yeah when police are being defunded there there are police precincts that are saying you know what we're fed up with this we're done and just letting the criminals take over some of these cities I mean look at what's going on and tell me that gun ownership is not a cultural thing in this country oh we can certainly see the hypocrisy of this entire situation quite clearly at this point in the video absurd you can see how messed up it is but the final nail in this coffin is the irony that surrounds Elmer Fudd losing his shotgun so what have we said for years and years about Fudd's right so if in case you don't know the slang Fudd refers to a casual gun owner but more specifically refers to a gun owner who thinks that the only guns that anybody have is a double-barrel shotgun or a hunting rifle or something like that and that nobody needs a semi-automatic nobody needs a machine gun nobody needs an ar-15 etc okay the irony of this is that we've always said all right all you feds out there that that won't stand up for the Second Amendment and its totality are gonna be whining when they come for your double double-barrel shotgun when they're done we'll take your rifle when they're done with us what have they done they took Elmer Fudd shot goes well we're going to start that's the irony that's the irony of this situation is a very term that describes your hypocrisy is to turn by which now we see this this clear and blatant pandering is by taking Elmer Fudd shotgun so if they'll take Elmer Fudd shotgun you better believe they will take any gun they want when they want any way they can if and it is literally the apex of canceled culture cancel culture is a thing in this country and it doesn't get addressed that often in many circles because people want to deny that it's happening but always happened but but cancel cultures a thing and it's it's a terrible thing because if you believe in the freedom of speech then anything that somebody says just because you disagree with what somebody says doesn't mean that they that they don't have a right to have an opinion or that the facts that they use to drive their opinion are not indeed facts like you always hear them say oh those are your facts no these are these facts okay so there's no way around that right likewise so it goes in both directions I'm not gonna say it doesn't happen from both sides of the aisle it's not an easy answer but I'll just say that you know I will have a conversation with anybody that's open and honest right if someone wants to destroy me with facts with them by all means destroy me with facts I'm a factual person show me the facts and you can sway my opinion but if it's not based in facts or if it's not based on data I don't want to hear it mm-hmm because I care about the facts I care about reality I care about the reality that is the life that I live in the world that I live in and I care about the people within that world not the theoretical people that live behind gated communities that they don't care what what gun law they passed because they're gonna have armed guards anyway with mp5s and p90s okay and radios right so see they don't care what laws they pass against little peons like you and I because there's never gonna apply to them and they never owned a gun anyway so how could they possibly understand gun culture and gun ownership when they don't even own guns they own people that have guns yeah and in their mind they look at themselves as higher than you that you're just a peon that it's just a subject and an Elmer Fudd is a there's a slight tiny microcosm of that canceled culture absolutely and it's all about indoctrination too I mean the more and more you look at programming this on television now especially this geared toward kids you know I I find movies all the time and stuff that look great like there's a bunch of little movies on Netflix and stuff that look great but then you get into them a little bit and then the the politics start coming out and it's just it's pandering to one side and it's not the side that I agree with I mean and I will not have my children being indoctrinated by that stuff so we don't have that programming in our home and when it allows me that a show that I grew up with you know like Looney Tunes it's gone so far down the deep end because the producers and such are just so liberal and progressive and I really hate using those terms but I mean it's the sad truth of the matter you know that I can't subject my kids to that anymore we'll have to just you know get the old DVDs and watch those you know and and look at the classics but it's an unfortunate time when everything is political like used to guy back in the day if you went to a sporting event I mean you go to the sporting event to escape you know kind of the the doldrums of daily life and politics but what do you see in sports now it's all political I mean the demonstrations sportscaster saying the wrong thing and then getting cancelled getting fired you know forcing to resign you know coaches and stuff saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing on social media being fired it happens every single day it is canceled or canceled culture like Eric said it is well and alive in our culture today and it's not a fork byproduct of the political stratum that we live in I mean quite a source you say I think it's a sad day when Looney Tunes gets pushed into the dark underbelly of undesirable things in our in our country I mean Looney Tunes represents Americana when you say it's a classic Looney Tunes cartoon it's like you can't help but think you know the smell of your of your grandpa's aftershave the smell of the coffee he was drinking that morning like getting up and smelling breakfast cooked Saturday morning cold air in the morning like you're about to go hunting and you watch Looney Tunes before we go out hunt in the morning with your grandpa like that's all Americana that's our culture that they're destroying you know and they're pushing that culture into a dark underbelly that oh you you have to go get these old-school Looney Tunes tapes you know it's like they want to treat it like you're some bad person to seek out that forbidden fruit you know that you're not supposed to partake in and it's a sad time for a country and I hope that we find our way but we wanted to mention this for those of you that didn't know 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Length: 19min 34sec (1174 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 13 2020