It's a weird title, all right, but what weirds me out more is the reference to that Men in Black scene as evidence that gun hoarders are the true heroes. As far as I know, that family didn't even know that stash of guns was there, which is why they look reasonably surprised a couple guys in suits show up, open an entire wall of their home, and proceed to raid an armory to stop the alien menace. Unless his argument was that it was weird for Kay, a government agent whose job is to defend the Earth, sometimes by means of lethal force, to have a stash of guns, which makes even less sense and sort of works against the following bullet point, which wonders why the guys actually hired to use guns aren't portrayed as heroes anymore.
Also this line makes me intensely uncomfortable...
When Colin Firth shoots up the Westboro Baptist Church in Kingsman, we all pump our fists at the stylish brutality because the hero is murdering assholes.
Holy shit NO we did NOT pump our fists at that because it was so justified. Seriously?
Now it was a compelling scene because it demonstrated how dangerous a weapon like Colin Firth would be in the hands of the bad guys. It was supposed to be unsettling, not something that fills us with righteous fervor. And if anyone was pumping their fists at the scene... well that's because it was beautifully choreographed and exquisitely filmed. Even for someone like me who really can't hack too much blood and gore, I could appreciate the quality of the shot just because of how stylized it was, how FICTIONAL it was. I wasn't glad because the people getting killed deserved it. I just thought it looked cool, while at the same time it was pretty depressing.
I'm not particularly for or against guns, maybe I'd be happier if there were less of them, but at any rate there are way better ways to make that case than to write an article about how even though it's not Hollywood's fault Americans have such an obsession with guns, there are lots of examples of how Hollywood glorifies guns that probably influence Americans in some sort of way that doesn't make it Hollywood's fault. Or something.
It sort of feels like an agenda with an article shoehorned around it. Which... is that how a shoehorn works? I actually haven't seen one in a long time, and I also suspect any shoe I'd need to horn my foot into would be immensely uncomfortable, but again, I don't actually know.