Gun Company Calls For Boycott of Liam Neeson After Anti-Gun Comments
Source: The Raw Story
A North Carolina gun manufacturer has called on the firearm industry to boycott actor Liam Neeson over the Taken 3 stars controversial comments about guns. In a Facebook post, PARA USA said the company now regretted providing firearms to be used in the Taken 3 film.
While the film itself is entertaining, comments made by its Irish-born star during press junkets reflect a cultural and factual ignorance that undermines support of the Second Amendment and American liberties, the company said.
We will no longer provide firearms for use in films starring Liam Neeson and ask that our friends and partners in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects. Further, we encourage our partners and friends in the firearms industry to do the same.
During a recent interview with the English-language Dubai newspaper Gulf News, Neeson said people in the United States had too many guns.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/gun-company-shows-support-for-the-second-amendment-no-more-guns-for-liam-neeson/
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)Taken 4 with Liam Neeson, Guillermo & Jimmy Kimmel
isobar
(188 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Not cool.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)right?
BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)to the bank about this one.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Nope.
samsingh
(17,571 posts)Scairp
(2,749 posts)He only stated a fact. I highly doubt he gives two shits if they want a boycott of a movie that has been out for weeks and weeks.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)and one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, I doubt he cares about any economic boycott
Scairp
(2,749 posts)And they made themselves look really petty and dumb in the process.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)and it's good news there will be no gun fanatics in the audience with me.
A Monster Calls is said to be a visually spectacular drama about 12-year-old Conor (newcomer Lewis MacDougall) who attempts to deal with his mothers (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss and faith. The cast also includes Academy Award nominees Liam Neeson, who will star in performance-capture and voiceover as the nocturnally visiting monster of the title, and Sigourney Weaver, who will portray Conors maternal grandmother, Toby Kebbell as Conors father, and Geraldine Chaplin, who is making her third movie with Bayona.
A Monster Calls is a beloved and iconic book, and Im thrilled at the opportunity to create a world of monsters and fantasy that does it justice, said Bayona, Im also delighted to rejoin much of my creative team from The Impossible, and I couldnt ask for a more talented and prestigious cast, and a more supportive group of studio partners, to help bring this incredible project to the screen.
The creative team on A Monster Calls also includes production designer Eugenio Caballero, an Academy Award winner for Pans Labyrinth, who previously collaborated with the director on The Impossible, costume designer Steven Noble (The Theory of Everything), and cinematographer Óscar Faura, who shot both The Impossible and The Orphanage.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Kinda funny in a way.
petronius
(26,580 posts)They're suggesting that the firearms industry refrain from providing products to be used in his future movies - in other words, don't sell/give/loan firearms to be used in the making of a movie by an actor they perceive as being opposed to their industry...
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)Gun fanatics make up the bulk of gun sales .. just the amount of actual owners is way down ..... that and the only good Taken was the first rated R one...
big_dog
(4,144 posts)and he's said he wont do any more Taken movies, what will the gun nuts boycott, the DVD release of Taken 3?
Politicub
(12,163 posts)Will the gun manufacturer have us avert our gaze when he appears on TV, or plug our ears with our fingers if his voice is on the radio?
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)Just like they did to Jane Fonda forty years ago.
She's been totally washed up since she sat on that AA gun. hahahaha
Lulu KC
(2,547 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)without even trying. Not a big movie goer. Haven't seen him since watching a Star Wars film years ago.
msongs
(67,193 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,215 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)DBoon
(22,285 posts)NT
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)It's a disgrace.
samsingh
(17,571 posts)samsingh
(17,571 posts)sure they care about our liberties. sarcasm off.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Suggesting he didn't have the right to say what he did.
samsingh
(17,571 posts)he just happens to be powerful enough not to be impacted.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)It's because they don't believe in free speech? If that's the standard, I guess progressives and most DUers in particular don't believe in free speech either. I see suggestions for boycotts because of something someone said all the time here.
Dr. Strange
(25,898 posts)samsingh
(17,571 posts)comment about guns - not the manufacturer.
the fact you can't see the difference is telling
hughee99
(16,113 posts)It's NOT a group suggesting that he doesn't have the right to say something. They're NOT demanding Neeson not be allowed to be in movies anymore, or threatening to sue Neeson for those comments.
It's no different than saying people should boycott Limbaugh for something stupid he said. Why do those people hate free speech?
Free speech is a protected right, but NO ONE has (or should) have the right to say what they want without changing people's opinions of them, or to prevent other people from expressing THEIR opinions on it.
Hosnon
(7,800 posts)Burf-_-
(205 posts)If.. Jean Valjean / Darkman / Qui-Gon Jinn /Hannibal (A-team) /Ra's Al Ghul /Oskar Schindler / Rob Roy / Aslan (Narnia) / ...says so...I'm thinking I'm kinda inclined to side against a mere gun company.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Burf-_-
(205 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)very underrated movie
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Saw Nell like a hundred times. Ta ta in the wind!!!
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)I'm reminded of the overwhelming calls to boycott Jane Fonda and Sean Penn films. They've both added some trophies to their fireplace mantles since then.
Liam Neeson may as well send a tweet thanking them in advance: "I don't know who you are, but I will find out... and I will use your competitor's superior wares to mercilessly kill my next movie nemesis."
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Gun culture is a bigger threat to our way of life than international terrorism.
The locked thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026091057
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)The Gun Control & RKBA Group welcomes all points of view on the subject:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1172
All those that can read, understand, and are willing to follow the SOP are welcome to
post there...
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I miss ya. No, I'm not being a smartass...I really do!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The conservative folks there are easily offended on just about every topic -- social security, taxes, racism, wealth distribution, war, environment, gunz, Zman, Wilson, Obamacare, etc. -- don't you think?
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Trust me, I'm very, VERY far from "conservative." In fact, guns are probably the only thing in your list on which we disagree...and my positions on most of them are sufficiently radical and militant that I avoid discussing them in detail here because they'd likely get me tombstoned in short order. Not that I visit DU more than once or twice a week these days...
But yes, I do indeed find the rightists there (and everywhere) to be easily offended. The conservatives over there make me just shake my head and weep for the future, at times. I do prefer it over there (DU really has become the echo chamber it's accused of being...), but it can be infuriating.
See you over on DI when the timeout's over. I'll try to find some non-gun threads you're participating in...it'd be nice to be on the same side for a change.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)and follow the kind request of the GD hosts that they gave you several times as they locked your posts for violating the SOP and Skinner's guidance on gun related posts.
I guess the one gun group is too slow and are must have some kind of issue to post that OP here.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)with the gun culture.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I "promote gunz and all the crud that goes with the gun culture." You can not because what you just said at least about me is not true and you know it.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)know you have seen my explanation my username is nothing about guns. You know that.
I spent over 20 years enlisted and 10 as a civilian in the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery. The nickname for that branch is "Duckhunter" not a thing to do about guns. There you go one more time explaining this to you.
Do you have another link, or are you just going to apologize to me now.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)if someone posts something negative about guns in GD or LBN.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I guess you can't find any. So where have I posted about my love of guns. I have posted I have some firearms and enjoy shooting at paper plates.
Nope I just point the SOP violators that disrespect Skinner by posting those threads in GD against his written guidance. Not ticked at all, more like saddened.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 16, 2015, 09:22 PM - Edit history (1)
they accept tens of thousands of senseless deaths but get all upset because an actor made a comment - fuck every last one of those paranoid, gun humping cowards
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Aristus
(66,089 posts)All that shooting! All those gunzzzzzz!
Sarcastica
(95 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Gun company, kiss my ass
Doc_Technical
(3,504 posts)...by not paying money to see Taken 24.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I haven't seen any of the Taken films...because I have zero interest in infantile revenge fantasy movies.
groundloop
(11,487 posts)I too have made statements to the effect that it's far far too easy to obtain weapons in the US, so NRA members won't be watching any films in which I star either.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Kaleva
(36,146 posts)Liam Neeson goes on a city destroying rampage in an effort to recover the movie prop guns taken from him.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)some financial investors in the US.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)main at will!!11!1111
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)most of the 2nd Amendment "defenders".
Crushed me when I heard he was citizen -- I was willing to offer myself up for a green card marriage.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)powerful than my non-existent lust for guns. I'm on his side and I will see any movie as long as he's in it.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)Taken 4 & 5 & 6! Happy to make more money!
Augiedog
(2,541 posts)The lunatic fringe is taking itself hostage and gonna shoot itself in the nether regions if ye don't weapon up and ride like a knuckle dragg'n troglodyte with clogged bowel syndrome. Cliven Bundistas all over 'merika are in trembling rage at your audacity of rational thought and critical think'n. In 'merika ya were born with two hands, one fer yer gun and one fer....well ye know (blush). So it's not too many guns, it's one too many hands, guess which one.
Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)Liam hurt their feelings. Don't supply your guns for movies, who the fuck cares? More work for gun stores who aren't crybabies.
supercats
(429 posts)Have your own little gun circle jerk-off and dissolve your company.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...and the Facebook page with those posts is now down.
K&R
PARA USA
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Sick fucks.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)I am totally for gun control in the US, he says. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day were seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobbys response to Newtown was? he asks, referring to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 children dead in December 2012.
The National Rifle Associations official response was If that teacher had been armed Its crazy. Ill give Britain its dues, when they had the Dunblane massacre in Scotland, within 24 hours the gun laws were changed so you could not have a handgun."
Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, but a resident of New York, Neeson became a US citizen five years ago in the wake of the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson, in a freak skiing accident in 2009. The actor cites the outpouring of goodwill from Americans as one of the main reasons for his decision. Part of the naturalisation process involves a test on US civics; Neeson, therefore, understands the Constitution as well as anyone. It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted, he says, in reference to the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/liam-neeson-interview-hard-man-actor-on-bono-ralph-fiennes-and-his-fear-of-guns-9728838.html
The linked interview (from last fall), with anecdotes about his 2 teenage sons, life in NYC and his friends, Ralph Fiennes and Bono, is well worth a read, and illustrates what a delightful human being he is. He's into yoga with Fiennes and re Bono:
And eat your hearts out, fans - I was having dinner with my NYC daughter one summer evening at Cafe des Artistes, when whom did we see at the table catty-corner from ours but Natasha Richardson and a lady friend, who were then joined for dinner by Liam Neeson. The storied old New York restaurant had a subdued, romantic lighting which made it a good place for celebrities to enjoy good food, largely unobserved. I didn't even notice the Neesons until my dtr., whispered, "Now, don't stare, Mom! but that's Liam Neeson. I made do with an occasional discreet glance - but I can tell you he & his wife looked so happy and relaxed together - sweet actually.
dembotoz
(16,737 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)are so freakin sensitive, aren't they?
Calista241
(5,584 posts)I wonder how many people Liam Neeson has killed in his movies with a gun. I would bet it's far more than all of the massacres we've seen in the last 10 years.
Liam Neeson has made a career and millions of dollars off of the glorification of a product he thinks should be banned. What a hypocrit.
crim son
(27,462 posts)What I find hypocritical is how it suddenly matters very much to gun nutters what some know-nothing who works in the film industry has to say about their product. I thought nobody cared about what dumb movie stars think.
Good for Mr. Neeson. I agree with him.
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)Slick move to get product placement in the film, but as the closing credits rolled nobody even know what the product was. PARAUSA Public Relations boys changed all that.
El Shaman
(583 posts)What is it with all this, gun barrel sucking , ball-less people?? Is this all they do, 25/7 -guns , guns, guns and more guns!!!??? They need to check in their bedrooms and take care of their mates , or else they won't multiply, but in a way kind of a good thing thou.
Is this the only way 'wing nuts' can keep their women faithful (talking GOP,Tea & RW nutters here) by prohibiting them BC pills and , of course, abortions !!!???
RelativelyJones
(898 posts)Things are really coming to a boil with these chip-on-the-shoulder nuts
3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...scare the crap out of me. He was just itching for a reason to stand his ground.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)No sooner does he dare to step away from the party line, however, than he is othered as an "Irish-born star."