As Americans continue to debate guns and not the bad guys who use them for bad purposes, I thought it important to put Americans today into a bit of context. To that end, the number one box office hit in the nation earlier this month was “Texas Chainsaw” (they left out the word “Massacre” from the 1974 version, for sensitivity reasons) — in 3D. That’s right. The most popular movie in America during the week of Jan. 3-10 — smack in the middle of another gun debate — was about a crazy man who cuts innocent people to pieces with …
Publishers Notebook: While gun laws are debated, chain saws rip at the movies
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