The 2nd on Netflix movie about gun control. - Were they trying to say something about the left ?
SPOILER ALERT!!
I watched this on Netflix last night and was really creeped out by it. I felt like this was subtle or not so subtle messaging about left leaning folks that want gun control. I felt like it fed the notion of " Radicals on the Left, Deep State" bullcrap. Somebody talk me down.
Or was this just Hollywood imagination as usual? It is in the top ten watched on Netflix, however its not getting good reviews. The acting is awful too. My review though is that there is some propaganda here about people that want gun control.
Premise of the movie:
The 2nd follows secret-service agent, Vic Davis, on his way to pick up his estranged son, Sean, from his college campus when he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes terrorist operation. Yikes. His son's friend Erin Walton (the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice) is the target, and this armed gang will stop at nothing to kidnap her and use her as leverage for a pending landmark legal case.
[link:https://www.purewow.com/entertainment/the-2nd-ryan-phillippe-netflix|
A Secret Service agent must save his son and the daughter of a Supreme Court justice from armed terrorists.
This movie has gotten a lot of bad reviews. Panned as a really bad Die Hard wannabe.
My problem with the movie is its all good and well until you realize that the terrorists were trying to force the hand of the Supreme Court to get rid of the 2nd amendment. They do not come right out and say that. However, when the mastermind of the plot - The Director of The CIA - talks about kids killed in school and how sometimes you have to sacrifice a few to save many, it becomes clear which way they want the court to decide. When its found that he's the mastermind of the plot, he says he's the tip of the spear" - My point again about - furthering that deep state crap.
It just felt like propaganda turned into a movie. The left want to take away the 2nd amendment, they want to take away your guns, the deep state. Radicals, they are coming for you.
Somebody talk me down. Am I reading too much into this? Was this just Hollywood being Hollywood.
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And would not shed a tear if it was repealed.
Many think that gun ownership should be a highly-vetted privilege granted by the government rather than an individual civil right.
A ban on "assault weapons" is in the Democratic Party's platform and has been for decades. So have magazine-capacity limits.
State-level (and sometimes Federal-level) Democrats routinely propose:
Extremely high taxes on guns and ammunition "to pay for gun violence"
Registration of some or all firearms (with fees, again to pay for gun violence).
Limits on quantities of ammunition that can be purchased
Waiting periods of purchases of guns
Limits to the numbers of guns bought per month
Changing concealed-carry permitting from "shall-issue" to "may-issue", or even "no-issue".
Things like micro-stamping and ballistic fingerprinting, which require of course gun registration.
Last winter here in CT there was a run on bulk ammo because a Hartford legislator proposed a massive excise tax on ammo "to pay for gun violence prevention and damage", just as an example.
There are damn few Republicans proposing any of this stuff. And when the Democrats flipped the Virginia government in 2018, they passed several gun-control bills.
The OP clearly laid out how it's a movie with a plot about a plan rooted in the Deep State to violently push a gun control agenda. You know, just like they do in real life 
This clearly appeals to you. Maybe you should watch the movie.
