Firing Blanks

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/opinion/rust-hollywood-gun-safety.html

("Hollywood Must Take Gun Safety More Seriously")

 Hollywood "can't authentically take on the debate around America's relationship with guns until it resolves its own internal contradictions." Really?

Is this piece a serious attempt to tell us that because of what happened on the set of "Rust" the film industry cannot raise its voice about this nation's obsession with guns, more than 400 million flooding our streets, our homes, our schools, our theaters, our malls, our churches and synagogues? That the deaths by way of domestic violence are not something those in Hollywood should be permitted to address. That AR-15's sold like packs of cigarettes are beyond the reach of the film crowd to rail against. Because of lax oversight on a film set?

Yes, Hollywood can and should do better. But why does not this author instead take dead aim at the gun industry, at the manufacturers and lobbyists, to tell them to act with the level of responsibility he is demanding from those not in any way responsible for the proliferation of weapons of such terrible destruction infiltrating every nook and cranny of this nation.

Kaj Larsen has a right to be outraged. But let it be directed where it properly belongs. Otherwise he is missing the target and just firing blanks.