Bill then dropped the issue in Friday night’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time” show … pointing out that Hollywood is leaning back to be politically correct, but “in terms of unbridled romanticism of armed violence?” Crickets “. Reacting to the recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, and the growing cry for Congress to “do something” … Maher said film and television studios also need to acknowledge some cold, hard statistics. Like the fact that the average American kid sees about 200,000 acts of violence on the big and small screens before he turns 18 – and the FBI says the “charm of violent entertainment” is a huge warning sign for potential school shooters. Play video content From Uvalde, Matthew McConaughey – and others – beg politicians to do something about access to firearms, especially assault weapons. Maher says, of course, that this is part of the problem, as is the film industry’s fascination with gun violence. He knows very well that the left will think he is doing the job of the right-wing Republicans or even the NRA, but he is clear about that. Nor does it call for censorship of action / shooting films – which he points out, in a rather hilarious way, should actually be called revenge films. But what he is saying is that Hollywood should call it what it is. I have to admit, Bill hit the nail on the head when he said, “The only thing we don’t call a trigger is the one that really has a trigger.”
