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The USC's New Firearm Directives for Hollywood

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T.REX ARMS

Technology

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

USC, the world's premiere film school, just released instructions on how to more responsibly show firearms and firearm usage in movies and television. What have they decreed? What are they trying to accomplish? Where did they get their ideas?     

Trigger Warning: The full guide from the USC   
The Reload: Article on the sources of the USC's talking points   
Shooting  Straight: The main Everytown article they cited     
Accidental Gun Deaths: Better charts and citations      

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0:00.0

Now, guys, I have a little bit of a conspiracy theory here.

0:05.0

I believe that Hollywood may have some kind of ulterior motive, some kind of agenda,

0:10.9

and I believe that I have found proof.

0:20.1

All right, welcome to another T-R-X talk, and this one we're going to be discussing

0:23.6

the film world, Hollywood, and how Hollywood is working with some of the different gun control

0:31.7

organizations.

0:32.8

And obviously, this is not a crazy conspiracy theory.

0:36.3

This is something that is incredibly well

0:38.3

publicized. I'm going to be linking to a report that the University of Southern California

0:45.4

just published. It's a guide for filmmakers. It has a number of suggestions, ways that we can

0:52.1

continue to shape the gun control narrative as filmmakers. Now, I want to

0:57.4

give a shout out to The Reload. This is Stephen Gatowski's gun reporting arm. They have a podcast,

1:04.8

and they also do articles, and they have a good article on this one. But I want to go through

1:09.1

the report here. I'll link to it down

1:11.5

below in the show notes so that you are able to figure out, you know, where some of these,

1:18.3

some of the data that is in this report comes from. Spoiler alert, it is mostly from gun control

1:24.3

organizations. But I'm going to go over this report here. At first glance, this is actually

1:29.7

a little bit tricky to figure out because it says here this is from the Norman Lear Center,

1:33.8

Hollywood Health Society, which is part of USC. But then when you look a little closer, you realize

1:41.5

that this was apparently created and prepared by Smithhouse Strategy,

1:45.7

which is a PR firm in Los Angeles. Maybe they just did the layout, because this is pretty much

1:51.1

just infographics. But then when you dig a little deeper, this is like copy and paste from an

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