soapbox

The Samuel Colt exhibition featuring prototypes, paintings of Samuel Colt, and general details about the rise of the Colt empire has been postponed.

Kirsten and I had dinner on Friday with a woman who works at the newspaper here. Apparently, some of the sponsors of the exhibition found out that a review of Samuel Colt’s life would include guns! And golly, you couldn’t possibly associate yourself with guns if you’re a sponsor of the arts.

Instead, it sounds like it’s going to become a traveling exhibition and is heading to Oklahoma and Texas.

I think it’s just a horrible example of overzealous political correctness. The old Colt Factory is still one of the largest and most impressive buildings in Hartford, although there are currently plans to to turn it into high-end condos. The actual Colt manufacturing facility is a run-down building next to the Home Depot that I usually go to. I’m not sure that they’re actually even producing things anymore. The Browning factory is somewhere around here too, well used to be, it got shut down a few months ago.

Are there any large gun manufacturers left in the US? I guess it’s in our national interest to have the Israelis, Chinese, Russians, and Eastern Europeans be the only ones who have the know-how to make lots of guns.

Ok, I can’t tell you anything about it other than it’s good.

Here are a list of other movies in a similarly good vein.
The Thomas Crown Affair
Ronin
The Usual Suspects

I’d be willing to give people a money-back guarantee on the film, so if you see it and don’t like it, talk to me.*

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