“Brad and I are not against having guns in the house and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to.” - Angelina Jolie





I f Harvey Weinstein kept his mouth shut, we would assume he supported gun rights and gun ownership. With the significant role guns have played in his movies, we could assume he's fully aware of the important role guns have played in the history of America. After all, one of the biggest mistakes the British Empire made was letting their American colonists own guns. This is something we would expect someone like Harvey Weinstein to understand, but his recent crusade against guns tells the opposite story. After Inglourious Basterds, Rambo, and Django Unchained, Harvey Weinstein has vowed to make the NRA and gun owners “wish they weren't alive”. In an attempt to dowse the flames thrown at him by conservatives, Weinstein has also vowed to quit making ultra violent movies. End of story. Harvey Weinstein is a new man. Right? Probably not.

Guns are important in the Harvey Weinstein universe. For him to change would require a complete 180 flip in principle and personality. Such a flip would devastate his entire career. It's not likely that Quentin Tarantino will change his filmmaking style just to appease Harvey and his new outlook on life. There's probably not a single producer in Hollywood that would turn down an opportunity to finance and execute a Tarantino film. So, if Weinstein really has changed, we can safely assume that his working relationship with Quentin Tarantino is over.

Weinstein is known for his aestheticism of violence. If all his films take the personality of his lower grossing, fluffy films like August: Osage County, Harvey Weinstein will find himself right back at the edge of bankruptcy – faster than the first time.

As Harvey Weinstein probably knows, we live in a world where both good guys and bad guys have guns. This won't ever change. Today, we simply employ handfuls of lawmakers to decide who the good guys are. From there, we grant these good guys a license to kill and carry firearms. Gun advocates don't like the idea of bureaucrats deciding who the good guys are – or who they should be. Since history dictates that the worst atrocities have been committed by bureaucrats, it's difficult to blame gun advocates for feeling the way they do.