{"id":920,"date":"2016-07-11T08:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=920"},"modified":"2016-07-11T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:01:56","slug":"matt-damon-makes-statement-on-guns-during-promotion-of-new-action-film-full-of-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/07\/matt-damon-makes-statement-on-guns-during-promotion-of-new-action-film-full-of-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon makes statement on guns during promotion of new action film full of guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/544303398\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.676768% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/544303398?et=oKN4V5UtT29ZBr6zaZ6o8A&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=Y37lGU7LMblc7W9v_LeL_E6D9ySs4N9Xddo-MitRCkU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"402\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood is known for its extreme hypocrisy but Matt Damon is a special kind of hypocrite with statements he recently made about gun control.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Damon, a mega star that has made millions playing a gun-wielding super spy in the popular <em>Bourne<\/em> series, was recently in Australia promoting the latest installment in the franchise, <em>Jason Bourne<\/em>. Harking back to that country\u2019s 1990s gun ban, Damon told fans he wished a similar thing could happen in the United States:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it\u2019s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly. We just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The actor ramped up the rhetoric, saying that it was obviously going to take a lot, say another stage of evolution, perhaps, to change anyone\u2019s mind in America about guns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cObviously mass shootings aren\u2019t going to do it. There have been so many of them at this point. Sandy Hook, when those children were murdered, if that didn\u2019t do it, you know, I just don\u2019t know. Maybe we just need to evolve further before we can have that conversation, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damon expressed hope for a day when the U.S. follows in Australia\u2019s footsteps and talks its citizens into giving up their guns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish we could be sensible like that but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen in my lifetime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nor in Jason Bourne\u2019s lifetime, if he wants to keep making those multiple house payments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2016\/07\/05\/matt-damon-wants-australian-style-gun-ban-in-u-s\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Breitbart<\/a> issued a challenge to the actor in a Facebook post, telling him to put that money where his mouth is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You want a gun ban? Put your money where your mouth is; right now, vow never to appear in any film with a gun. Also, donate every penny you\u2019ve ever received from films featuring weapons. Come on, Matt. Live those progressive values. Put up or shut up, you rich, Leftist hypocrite. Signed, We the People<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If he declines, and there\u2019s no doubt he will, perhaps America can cast him as lead in The Bourne Dishonesty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Hollywood hypocrite tells fans to do what I say, not what I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matt Damon makes statement on guns during promotion of new action film full of guns?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another Hollywood hypocrite tells fans to do what I say, not what I do.\" \/>\n<meta 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