Dennis Quaid: Gun
Control as American as Football and Taylor Swift
by AWR Hawkins 3 Feb 2016
In a Funny or Die PSA promoting more gun
laws, actor Dennis Quaid claims gun control
is an American as football and Taylor Swift.
The PSA starts with Quaid and actress Amanda Peet going
back and forth about “things that most Americans agree on.” While they discuss
possibilities, the camera cuts away to two guys on a couch watching football,
and one of the guys looks the camera says, “49 percent of Americans love
football. It’s like chess but with more broken bones.”
Then Quaid says, “America’s most popular musician is
Taylor Swift.” The camera cuts away to teenagers jumping up and down in their
bedroom to the sound of Swift’s music, and of the girls says, “53 percent of
Americans love Taylor Swift.”
Amanda Peet then explains that a dog is America’s
favorite pet.
Quaid summarizes: “Football, Taylor Swift, and dogs are some
of the most popular things in this country.” Peet then asks if there’s
something even more Americans agree on, and Quaid suggests there is. And he
claims it is gun control.
Quaid says, “93 percent of Americans think that we should
have universal background checks on every single gun sale.”
So there you have it. Gun control is as American as football and Taylor Swift.
There two problems here. First, even an apparently high
level of support for universal background checks a year ago does not necessary
mean there is widespread support for background checks now. And it doesn’t
even mean that there was actual, widespread support then. In other words,
strong support for gun control in certain states or regions of the country can
show elevated support for gun control that simply isn’t there when you go
Congressional district by Congressional district at election time.
Thus, the claims of near-90 percent support for
background checks following Sandy Hook were
tested by the the rigors of reality in the 2014 mid-term elections when
candidates running on gun control were handily beaten.
Secondly, even if the polls on background checks actually
reflected the opinion of Americans on a Congressional district by Congressional
district basis, America is a republic–not a democracy. And our Founding Fathers
set it up as a republic so that rule of law–including the Constitution’s
divisions of powers and protections of natural rights–always trump majority
vote or opinion.
Football
Gene A.
Washington was a director of football operations for the National Football League, and is Condoleezza Rice’s frequent social
companion.
Note: Condoleezza Rice
is Gene A. Washington’s frequent
social companion, and a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Taylor Swift is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client.
Jessica Alba is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Kevin
Bacon is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Drew Barrymore is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Richard Belzer
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Benjamin Bratt
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Betty Buckley is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Steve Carell is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Judy Collins is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Sheryl
Crow is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Billy Crystal is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Matt
Damon is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Michael Douglas
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Art Garfunkel is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Jennifer Garner is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Richard
Gere is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Kathie Lee
Gifford is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Dustin Hoffman is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Kate
Hudson is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Diane Keaton is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
David E. Kelley
is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
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Ricki
Lake is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Denis
Leary is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
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Barry Manilow is a
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
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Michael Moore is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
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Conan O'Brien is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
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Rosie O'Donnell is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Amy
Poehler is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Debbie Reynolds is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Britney Spears is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Patrick Stewart
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Barbra Streisand
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Dick Van Dyke is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Catherine
Zeta-Jones is a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client, and made the National Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Spike
Lee was a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Reese Witherspoon
was a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Dennis
Quaid made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
National Rifle Association
enemies list (Past Research)
Thursday, October
3, 2013
Ari
Emanuel is the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, and Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is Ari Emanuel’s brother, a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center
for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Sundance Institute.
Enough Project
is an affiliated project for the Center for American Progress.
Center
for American Progress calls for heightened gun safety for guns.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is a trustee at the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, and married to Kenneth
D. Cole.
Kenneth D. Cole
is married to Maria Cuomo Cole, and
a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Christine Lahti
is a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and made the National Rifle Association
enemies list, listed in 2013.
Steven E. Tisch was
a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and made the National Rifle Association
enemies list, listed in 2013.
Sally
Field is a trustee emeritus at the Sundance
Institute, was a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Robert Redford
is the founder & president of the Sundance
Institute, and made the National
Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Dennis
Quaid made the National Rifle
Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Henry W. McGee
was a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and a trustee at the Public Theater.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is a trustee at the Public
Theater, and Martin Feinberg’s
son.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown (CT) is the
location of the 2012 massacre at Sandy
Hook Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings where 28 were killed, including gunman.
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