‘Django Unchained‘ director Quentin Tarantino supports harsher gun control, but that isn’t stopping gun advocates from using his latest film to promote gun ownership among minorities.
Political Media, the company behind the recent ‘Gun Appreciation Day,’ is starting a follow-up campaign and nonprofit organization called ‘What Would Django Do?’
Larry Ward, president of Political Media, told The Hollywood Reporter that he has not consulted Weinstein Co. to get permission to use the name ‘Django’ in his new organization. He stressed that Political Media would not violate copyright laws and would change the name if necessary.
“But Django is perfect for what we’re trying to do, which is to promote gun rights to minorities,” he told The Reporter. “We’ll tackle the issue on the Democrats’ own turf.”
The new organization gets its name from a column by Jonathan David Farley — who is partnering with Political Media on the new campaign — that was reposted on the ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ website. Farley writes that black Americans should support gun rights instead of increased gun control, reminding them that if African-Americans had possessed guns slavery might not have happened.
“Historically, guns have been the African-American’s greatest friend,” Farley writes.
Farley suggests letting the National Rifle Association teach gun courses in schools and placing Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in all schools. He also condemns the Mulford Act, a law banning the public display of loaded firearms, that was passed by the California Assembly in 1967. Farley writes that the law was used to disarm black Americans.
Ward told The Reporter that hundreds of thousands of people participated in ‘Gun Appreciation Day,’ and he’s hoping ‘What Would Django Do?’ will be met with similar success.
