Does Bullet The Blue Sky convey an anti-gun message?

[HBK-79]

As we all know, whenever U2 perform Bullet The Blue Sky, the song and its performance take on a different theme- depending on the tour. During the ZooTV tour, Bullet The Blue Sky was about Nazism. During the Vertigo Tour, it was about COEXIST. (The original meaning of song is about conditions in Central America during the mid-80s).

So was the band's performance of Bullet The Blue Sky during the Elevation Tour really about the lack of gun control in the US? Was it some sort of protest thing against gun violence?

Watch this clip from the Live in Boston DVD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfpeqoYWXk

Let's see- the excerpt from Charlton Heston's speech, Bono's rant about firearm accessibility, Bono making that gesture with the spotlight at the end. What do you think?

Are U2 making an anti-gun/pro-gun control statement here? And if so, why didn't the right-wing nuts of conservative America pick up on this?

 

[BVS]

Of course it was anti-gun...

The right wing nuts pretty much know where U2 stand, in fact most everyone does, with the exception of a few people in here...

 

[U2387]

Yes, Bullet was meant to convey a pro gun control message by showing both the multimillion dollar industry behind guns(NRA, Heston, gun makers, Congress) and the dangers of unregulated firearm possession. If you recall from the video, a little girl finds a family member's(or according to Heston, another "good person's" ) gun, starts playing with it, then the video fades and bullet kicks in. We are left to assume the little girl accidentially killed herself as a result of a gun sold without a trigger lock. Laws that require that responsible gun owners lock up their guns and have trigger locks save lives without infringing on the right to bear arms, and the NRA is wrong for opposing these policies. U2 wanted to make clear that they thought it was wrong as well.

The NRA is not a group that Bono is shy in condemning. Good for him. These guys are consistently on the opposite side of our police who put themselves in danger every single day, whether it be with opposing background checks, tracing of guns used in crimes and the banning of so called cop killer bullets that can pierce body armor. This is a group w/ one agenda: to help those who bankroll their existence, the gun makers, sell guns to people. That alot of people who want guns are criminals does not even enter into the equation. It is their right to try and sell, it is our right, and U2's right, to say clearly that we do not think it is good public policy to have their business interefere with everyone else's safety.

At the Vertigo concert I was at, Bono was bragging that the One campaign would soon have more members than the NRA, so he hasn't forgot about them either.