Movie Producer Harvey Weinstein Says He Will Make NRA ‘Wish They Weren’t Alive’
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has vowed to make the National Rifle Association (NRA) “wish they weren’t alive.” The movie maker’s comments during an interview with Howard Stern angered Second Amendment supporters. Weinstein also stated that no one in the United States needs to own a gun and that he had never purchased a firearm and never would.
Weinstein’s anti-gun comments has caused some to wonder if the producer does not need to own a gun himself because he has a private security detail – something every day Americans cannot afford. “I don’t think we need guns in this country. And I hate it. I think the NRA is a disaster area,” Harvey said.
The moviemaker told Stern that he did not want to reveal too much about his “secret film” that would rock the NRA. He also stated that actress Meryl Streep is involved with the film and that the two of them are “going to take the issue [guns] head on.” The Weinstein movie is not a documentary and was likened to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by the controversial producer.
Howard Stern was blunt when challenging Weinstein’s gun control stance. When the radio show host asked what would happen if an event like the Holocaust happened again and people were once again marched into Auschwitz type concentration camps. Weinstein simply said that he would “find a gun” if something like that occurred. Stein also said that Streep referred to Weinstein as God. The radio show host added that the movie producer wrote him an email requesting to be on the air to perhaps “yell” about the NRA anti-gun movie.
A report about Weinstein’s anti-NRA movie in the Washington Times by Emily Miller said, “Mr. Weinstein has been watching too many movies if he thinks the good guys find fully-loaded firearms in convenient locations to use only when necessary.” As Miller also noted, The Weinstein Company chairman is one of President Barack Obama’s biggest fundraisers.
The movie mogul also added this his vision involved a desire to scare people away from firearms. After people see the film Weinstein says he believes they will walk away thinking, “Gun stocks – I don’t want to be involved with that stuff. It’s going to be like crash and burn.” It is highly unlikely that hundreds of millions of gun owners across the United States will suddenly stare into their gun cabinet and jump away thinking, “ooh … ick.” Whether or not the gun control movie which appears to be focused heavily on the NRA will sway any minds remains to be seen, but Weinstein’s appearance on the Howard Stern show did generate enough buzz to at least fill theater seats.
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