Owen has a post up on a couple new movies with anti-gun messages. Anti-gun is nothing new for Hollywood, of course, but both movies target gun manufactures the same way the left has targetted Big Tobacco. Not only as soulless corporations, but malicious ones:

In both these films, the gun industry is portrayed as if it's the new tobacco industry; all-powerful oligarchs perverting justice with the sole intention of placing guns in the hands of criminals (oddly enough, we are led to believe that this is a burgeoning market). This scenario particularly plays out in Runaway Jury, which was based on a John Grisham novel. In that film, the gun industry, rallied together, is fighting a lawsuit claiming that it sold assault weapons to distributors who then sold them to third-parties who then sold them into the black market -- and the manufacturer knew about all of this.

As if to underscore Owen's point, the Runaway Jury movie actually changed the villain from Big Tobacco to Big Munitions. In the original novel, the bad guy was a tobacco company targetting kids and the poor. Apparently the movie changed that to gun manufacturers marketting directly to evil-doers.

Hollywood (and it's defenders) might argue that making the movie about gun manufacturers makes it more "topical" since most tobacco lawsuits have been settled. But it betrays a bias among the left (which Hollywood exemplifies in many ways) that views the two as being somewhat interchangable. The gun lawsuits have been going on a while now, but they haven't taken hold among the public as the tobacco lawsuits did. The general public simply doesn't see the connection that the left does. With enough propaganda they might, though.

I hope not.