1. I'm sixty-three years old so "Die Hard" doesn't impress me the way it might impress kids in their twenties and thirties.
Not saying that's what you are but if you're a fan of Siouxsie, and you're
not in your thirties or forties, then you know who Suzanne Gardner is, yes?
2. My old company provided the stage and lighting for Willis'
"The Return of Bruno" movie
(The Woodstock dream sequence) and that is when I learned that Bruce Willis' biggest problem is "he thinks he's Bruce Willis"...he's a major asshole and as much as I enjoyed his acting in some non Die Hard films, I still despise him so I wouldn't be caught dead thinking of him in a situation where I am thinking of pulling out a firearm.
3. I've owned some kind of firearm since 1974. I was a lefty back then just as I am today, although I probably broadened my views a bit and try to be more inclusive than I was as a youngster.
4. I spent over a quarter century doing, among other things, freelance news.
I covered the 1992 LA Riots and prior to that I wound up covering at least one if not two gang related shootings a week.
I know what it's like to be around gunfire and gun play.
If anything, it makes me even LESS inclined to think of Die Hard because once you've been hit by a couple of rounds, it tends to put everything in perspective, especially when it's your camera equipment that took the rounds.
5. I've never romanticized firearms. They're a tool. I also lived up in Northern Minnesota, which by the way is a lot of wilderness dotted with a few small towns and a lot of lakes. Wild critters inhabit that region and without a firearm you run the risk of becoming a meal.
6. Lastly, the 2A will never be abolished here, and even if by some happenstance it was, you will never ever get rid of four hundred million privately owned firearms. It is not only mathematically impossible, it is fiscally and logistically impossible.
It's like The War on Drugs or The Volstead Act.
There are good reasons WHY The Volstead Act was repealed, and equally good reasons why our forty year trillion dollar misadventure known as The War on Drugs is winding down.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.