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I chose the article "NRA Web site glorifies violent Hollywood movies after NRA chief criticizes violent Hollywood movies" by John Aravosis because I think it is a perfect example of different industries (whether it be the NRA, video game companies or Hollywood) will keep blaming each other even if it contradicts previous statements they’ve already made. I find it almost comical about how much of a hole the NRA, particularly headman Wayne LaPierre, has dug itself into since the Sandy Hook shootings. Now of course I don’t blame the NRA on the shootings because I believe that a multitiude of things have contributed to the horrific events but the NRA must surely understand they have to take some responsibility. Aravosis states that LaPierre calls violent movies “pornographic” and denounces movie makers for having the nerve to call the violence entertainment. This of course is hypocritical because both in the NRA museum and on their website are pictures and different descriptions of different guns used in violent films such as Pulp Fiction (1994) and Reservoir Dogs (1993). This just shows that certain industries will try and protect their name under any cost if they feel attacked, even if their claims have as many contradictions as this one made by the NRA does. No one is even trying to find the real issue or even work together to attempt to resolve some obvious problems in our country. Groups like the NRA are only concerned with their own image and while yes, it hurts them that guns were involved in the killing, but if both the NRA and the media it is trying to hurt would just work together then maybe we as a country could get some closure as to what the real problems are in this whole shooting case.