Good Morning America Interview

RDA talks about his childhood gun experience and the Blood Brothers episode.

Airdate: 18 Nov 1988

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• macgyver
• gun
• issue
• entertainment
• news
• tv

[CamiloSanchez1979]

Wow, who knew, Americans were stupid about guns even on a tv show.

[MacGyverOnline]

@CamiloSanchez1979 Apparently everyone in the world EXCEPT you. And what's stupid about it?

[IlovemyGlock21]

What I mean by fabricated is that the way they reached 10-12 kids a day was to include "children" up to 21 years old.  They also counted deaths from gang on gang shootings, self-defense, and justified police shoot-outs.

[MacGyverOnline]

@IlovemyGlock21 I guess it depends what your arguing as to weather those situations should be included in the stats or not, but I'd agree that if your trying to argue that guns are dangerous because kids shoot each other or themselves with them, then including situations where kids are shot by adults doesn't really help your argument much.

[IlovemyGlock21]

Of course MacGyver was fictional. In real life MacGyver would be shot all to hell by the bad guys that were after him.

BTW - 10 kids a day dieing by gunfire has been proven as fabricated.

[MacGyverOnline]

@IlovemyGlock21 Actually, in a population the size of the US 10 kids per day doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.

I just did a quick Google search for car wreck and gun deaths stats. It's funny how car wreck stats are really easy to find, but it's REALLY hard to find up-to-date non-biased legitimate gun stats. But from what I saw it looks like they are both pretty close, but no-one wants to ban or restrict cars. lol

[fantasticfreako]

was that jason priestley in the clip?

[1stonestanding]

Audience also see : Maximinus Thrax and upto date pic. What do yah think???Does it match ???

[1stonestanding]

Audience I got a question......Does this guy look like Ares of the greek....and If so How did prettyboy here get to be the God of war????

[1stonestanding]

In Tyrants,Dictators,& Terrorism guns seems to be the only way to stale-mate the show. UNTIL someone can come up with a Better idea to keep freedom to grow -up and build a planet and survive ourselves.I grew up with a dad that taugh proper usage of weapons.

[slairaip]

Macgyver the TV show is a clear example of Hollywood's anti-gun propaganda infused with an entertaining show; with the U.S. GOV's blessing of course.

Nothing has changed today with the same message and duplicitous thinking; that is pro war but don't you dare have a gun to protect yourself with.

[gukonni]

Besides, it was the brainy solutions (and wondering if they ACTUALLY would work) that made this show interesting. Just shooing people and blowing things up like the A-TEAM is a whole different concept and wouldn't be as much pleasure for some people.

[gukonni]

I don't mean to offend anyone who uses guns in their occupation. At the end of the day, I'd probably use a gun if I had to to protect myself. But I'd never use them in an occupation to shoot someone because that just feels different to me. Protecting yourself once or twice in your whole life is different than shooting bad guys several dozen times in a decade.

[gukonni]

I was that kid shooting birds that he was walking with. I had some bad experiences. In total, I had them taken away and was grateful for it. I loved MacGyver. I grew out of that phase in my life. I sympathized with the "no guns" mantra. I still hate guns. They're all explosion and not very much thought.

[SpiritSinger]

@IlovemyGlock21 here is one for you...my brother in law came in from hunting and laid his rifle down to get a drink. his oldest son (being about 6 i believe it was) decided to put the gun away for him, but the rifle was to unwieldy and as he dropped it, it went off and shot his younger sister through the stomach. thankfully she lived. it could have been worse, she could have died. the carelessness of adults with guns is a big cause of child deaths with guns.