
Thinking it would be entertaining to repeatedly brandish a gun at audience members from the front of a Denver theater, Madonna has upset some fans, CBS4 Denver reported Friday. Opening her act at the Pepsi Center three hours late, according to accusations related in the report, the singer’s repeated pointing of a handgun at the crowd, captured on video embedded in this column’s sidebar player, would seem not only bizarre in light of the July mass shootings in a theater in nearby Aurora, but also in light of her history involving guns that is hypocritical to the point of appearing bipolar, even deranged.

“It’s true there is a lot of violence in the beginning of the show and sometimes the use of fake guns – but they are used as metaphors,” Madonna defended her actions in a statement described charitably as “rambling.”
“I do not condone violence or the use of guns,” she continued. “Rather they are symbols of wanting to appear strong and wanting to find a way to stop feelings that I find hurtful or damaging. In my case its [sic] wanting to stop the lies and hypocrisy of the church, the intolerance of many narrow minded cultures and societies I have experienced throughout my life and in some cases the pain I have felt from having my heart broken.”
Such justification and projection, if truly believed, might be fairer game for psychological analysis rather than a gun rights examination, and it would need to include a long and confused love/hate relationship with what responsible firearms owners consider tools, rather than metaphors, which are generally employed disparagingly by those who would remove guns from private hands.
One of Madonna’s first highly visible forays into anti-gun activism came with her signing on to a full page ad in USA Today sponsored by Handgun Control, Inc. (that’s what the Brady Campaign used to call itself before somebody decided it revealed too much about their intentions) titled "Open Letter to the NRA," published in June, 1999, and endorsed by a list of entertainment luminaries and also-rans, which this correspondent addressed in a column for Guns and Ammo magazine some years back.
“The Immaterial Girl’ had the gall to sign the HCI letter after her private security force shot an intruder on her estate grounds,” the article related.
"We are not 'gun haters'," Madonna and her fellow signatories protested, and then demanded limiting handgun purchases to one a month, banning "assault weapons," magazine capacity limits, gun locks and "a 'cooling off' period. . .[that] might just save the life of a child. . ."
Someone who can afford armed security to patrol her estate, even when she’s not at home, does not need to worry about such matters. She’s taken care of, and with more than metaphors about hypocrisy, lies and intolerance.
But wait, as the infomercial pitch lines go, there’s more, documented occasionally on The War on Guns blog.
Back during the time when she had tried to reinvent herself as a pseudo-British aristocrat, replete with pretentious accent, she went gaga for pheasant hunting, going so far as to import 1,000 chicks for a hunting party on her estate. That is, until she banned it from her lands, because she developed a phobia that their souls would return to haunt her.
Then there’s the matter of apparently violating New York City’s draconian gun laws in the name of fashion. The heels on the designer shoes she wore to a premiere were fashioned to look like handguns, replicas of which are illegal in the Big Apple unless “the entire exterior surface of such…imitation firearm is colored white, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright blue, bright pink or bright purple, either singly or as the predominant color in combination with other colors in any pattern” along with a host of other nonsense requirements demanded by equally dysfunctional disarmament zealots.
And while Madonna’s recent manifesto claims the gun she used in her Denver “performance art” was “fake,” cardinal safety rules involving people not part of her show were violated, and verifying that stage guns were, indeed, mere props, would seem a reasonable expectation, especially from those who would have us believe their primary interest is in “commonsense, reasonable measures” and “gun safety.”
One would think anti-gun Denver Police Chief Robert White, who is “push[ing] for progress on gun control,” would insist on finding out, and investigate all the “outrage” over what news headlines are characterizing as “brandishing,” and at least make certain public safety wasn’t compromised by Madonna artistically exorcising her inner demons of pain and heartbreak, along with the legions of malevolent feathered spirits tormenting her from the great beyond.
UPDATE: Forgot to include this gem:
And we need, and I need, Michael Moore in my life.
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