Gun rights advocates are hitting back at many of the stars who appeared in popular pro-gun control campaign 'Demand a Plan.'
A video posted on YouTube called 'Demand a Plan? Demand celebrities go f*** themselves' labels the stars hypocrites because many of them have appeared in violent roles in TV and movies.
The video takes special aim at Jaime Foxx, who plays a freed slave who 'kills all the white people' in his new movie 'Django Unchained.'
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Standing
up: Reese Witherspoon is one of the many celebrities featured in the
'Demand a Plan' campaign calling for tougher gun control restrictions
Dark
side: Despite being known for starring in comedies like 'Legally
Blonde', Witherspoon has played violent roles - including this scene in
'Freeway' where she holds a gun to a man's head
'Demand
a Plan' was launched by the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns in the
wake of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. It has received 6.2million views since it was posted on YouTube on December 21.
Recognizable faces include Foxx, Jason Bateman, Beyonce, Amy Poehler, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Julianne Moore and Kristen Bell.
The new video juxtaposes their sober-faced appeal for tougher gun laws with violent scenes the stars have played out on screen.
Several scene from the ultra-violent new Quentin Tarantino movie 'Django Unchained' are also used.
Jeremy Renner, another big screen action hero, has numerous gun-wielding scenes spliced into his appeal for tougher gun restrictions.
When Reese Witherspoon asks 'how many more colleges' will become the scenes of mass shootings, the video cuts to a clip of shooting a man in the head at point-blank range.
Support: Cameron Diaz was one of the stars asking for a ban on 'assault weapons' and restrictions on magazine capacity
Violent: Diaz robbed a bank and threatened to shoot patrons in her 1997 movie 'A Life Less Ordinary'
'Bunch
of hypocrites, if they feel so strongly against guns why do they take
up roles in movies where they use guns for violence. Seems to me they
don't practice what they preach,' one commenter wrote in response to the
video.The stated goal of the 'Demand a Plan' campaign is to convince Congress to pas legislation that will 'require every gun buyer to pass a criminal background check, get military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines off our streets and make gun trafficking a federal crime.'
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