If you thought Wednesday’s episode of Designated Survivor was straight from a gun control organization’s playbook, you would be right. As first reported by the Washington Free Beacon’s Steve Gutowski, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence advised on the April 12 show in which “President Kirkland” (played by Kiefer Sutherland) lobbies for anti-Second Amendment legislation to pass the Senate.
The Free Beacon’s Gutowski wrote:
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, one of the country's leading gun control groups, said they gave a presentation to the team behind the primetime show starring Kiefer Sutherland.
"Our president Dan Gross presented to members of their team a while back before the season began about representing gun violence on screen and spent time educating them on the issue," Brendan Kelly, a Brady Campaign spokesman, told the Washington Free Beacon. "It was part of that larger effort I alluded to in [a recent email to Brady supporters] to work with content producers and creators to highlight the issue of gun violence in America and the sensible solutions at our disposal."
He added:
The Brady Campaign said they were happy with how the series portrayed the issue of gun control.
"We hope integrating this issue into storylines can help facilitate more conversation about the everyday gun violence that kills 33,000 Americans a year and shine a spotlight on the sensible steps politicians and gun owners alike can take to help bring that number down," Kelly said. "For us, it's about changing social norms and rethinking the way we talk about guns. Of course we appreciate when the issue is reflected as accurately as possible, recognizing creative liberties can and often are taken in entertainment. We think Designated Survivor really nailed it on that front."
For more on the episode, go here. The previous week’s episode also pushed gun control.
