No rest 4 da dimwitted: Julianne Moore & Kyra Sedgwick join fight 4 more gun control

[vinnyg101]

Actresses Julianne Moore, Kyra Sedgwick join fight for tougher gun control laws


BY Laura Dimon Graham Rayman

Hollywood stars Julianne Moore and Kyra Sedgwick threw their support Wednesday behind an effort to pressure lawmakers for more gun control laws.

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**(orange pants Sedgwick, orange hair Moore)


The new Everytown for Gun Safety campaign encourages Americans to make 1 million calls to Congress before the midterm elections in 2018.

The National Rifle Association is backing legislation that would water-down gun silencer safety laws, and require states to accept gun permits issued by other states.

Both measures are sharply opposed by gun control advocates.

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“I think it's a public health crisis. Guns are such a hazard. We need more regulations to keep our population safe," said Julianne Moore on Wednesday.

“We have a responsibility to use our voice to make a difference,” said Moore, 56, the chair of the creative arm of the group, at the Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District.

“I think it's a public health crisis. Guns are such a hazard. We need more regulations to keep our population safe.”

Shenee Johnson lost her 17-year-old son Kedrick Morrow in 2010. He had just won an academic scholarship to St. John’s University when he was shot to death at a Queens party.

Kyra Sedgwick is also backing an effort to push lawmakers to enact tougher gun control laws.

"I know there are too many other mothers like me in this country,” she said.

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"It may be too late for Kendrick, but it's not too late for so many other children."

On Oct. 1, Stephen Paddock rained bullets from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel, killing 58 people in 10 minutes.

An AR-15 rifle fitted with a "bump stock."

Another 489 were injured — shot, trampled or hit by shrapnel.

Paddock used so-called bump stocks on his semi-automatic rifles during the massacre. The devices allows the gun to fire at a rate close to that of a machine gun.

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The NRA has said it backs a review of bump stocks, but it is still pressing other legislation that loosens gun laws.

Police officers stand at the scene of the mass shooting outside the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 1.

“For too long we've accepted mass shootings and day-to-day gun violence as the norm, but Everytown and Moms Demand Action continually prove that we don't have to accept any of these tragedies as status quo ... We have to do better, and have to make (the government) do better,” said Sedgwick, 52.

Under a bill sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), silencers would be removed from the National Firearms Act, thus allowing people to undergo a less extensive background check before getting one.

The permit bill — known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity bill — would require states to honor gun permits issued in other states, even if the latter has weaker gun laws than the former.

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As part of the campaign, a public phone booth with a direct line to the Capitol was unveiled at the Standard. It comes with a script callers can use to demand a stop to NRA-backed bills.

“We have to say enough is enough,” said John Feinblatt, president of the group.

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[bogey1]

Yeah, ok

[sota]

didn't Moore have a movie out just after hildabeast lost, that was about a female president? and it got shitcanned?

edit: my bad. I was thinking of this piece of shit... https://www.movieinsider.com/m14136/miss-sloane?np=1

[RockIsland]

didn't Moore have a movie out just after hildabeast lost, that was about a female president? and it got shitcanned?

edit: my bad. I was thinking of this piece of shit... https://www.movieinsider.com/m14136/miss-sloane?np=1

She's one of those people that you can just tell doesn't have much going on upstairs.

[Aggies Coach]

Merica'

[tacticalreload]

Hollywood is just one giant hive mind. These people are all the same person. They are rich and famous, so they are used to being treated in a manner that makes them think that their opinions are more important than everyone else's. (It's exactly what happens to life-long politicians, who coincidentally are the other profession where people make a living by getting paid to lie and pretend they are someone that they aren't.) Additionally, the reality is that these people came about their money and fame without ever really having to spend a large amount of time living among the lowly trash like us. It's a sheltered existence that disconnects them from what it means to basically not be them.

Unfortunately, the ignorant among us look up to these people like their opinion on firearms matters somehow. I don't go to my doctor for religious advice... I don't call a plumber to make me laugh... I don't seek out a college professor to find out what's wrong with my car... and I don't give a shit what musicians, actors, and other "artists" and "entertainers" think about my politics. If only everyone else felt the same way, we'd cut all this bullshit off at the knees. Plus we wouldn't have to have long douche-baggy discussions about the NFL and patriotism or other such things that shouldn't have anything to do with each other.

[j_h_smith]

It amazes me that those "Elites" can pay for their own private armed security, but they don't believe that we should be able to own a firearm. Drop them off in East LA and tell them to live their for a month and lets see how well they'd do.

[jakebrake]

Perhaps this is the only way that they can get out of the "where are they now?" file.