encouraging young people to be trained in how to use guns<\/a> raises a very important point about the psyche of this country.<\/p>\nDo we really want a future saturated in a renewed push towards normalising gun culture? Returning to America, one must remember the cultural power of the movies.<\/p>\n
Clive James once described the hero of almost every major 80s blockbuster, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as looking like \u2018a brown condom full of walnuts\u2019.<\/p>\n
Humorous an aside as it is, Schwarzenegger and guns went together in that period like wine and cheese.<\/p>\n
Are we really that paranoid about an unnamed northern neighbour marshalling its forces and taking Australia and turning it into something other than what we have enjoyed together?<\/p>\n
I really don\u2019t think so. Then again, we do have the next generation Aukus nuclear-powered submarines coming sometime in the early 2040s to save us from enemies near and far.<\/p>\n
Despite Arnie\u2019s machismo in all those gun-toting movies we all enjoyed in summer\u2019s past, there is the fact that we have Bob Katter, the difference being Katter is amusing and concerning at the same time.<\/p>\n
Watching him recently holding a gun during a news interview. It made me think of a classic episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye Pierce is quoted as saying the following:<\/p>\n
\u2018I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got into this war, I had a very clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns.\u2019<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u2019m incorrect for quoting two creative\/cultural figures of the past, however I should end this article by tipping my conscientious objector\u2019s hand by stating that guns are not the answer, perhaps as another figure once wrote \u2018love\u2019 is the answer.<\/p>\n
Tim Humphries is a bitcoin and tech enthusiast turned screenwriter based in Brisbane Queensland and can be found at X @mothyspace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are some humans so fascinated by guns? Turn on the TV and it\u2019s everywhere. The cultural might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,9616,44],"class_list":["post-816485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-flat-white","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}