Peter:

If you feel that it is alright to make much money from showing the virtues of guns in movies -but perfectly OK to denounce them in real life -then that's your view and you are welcome to it. Others of us still think it's hypocrisy, ACTOR or not. What does that suggest to you about the principles of a man who will say anything for money on screen -and then say the opposite for political reasons off screen? It would at least make me think he was a opportunist who knew how to make money and when.

Twelve seconds is a long time in which to get off a shot. Although without having been there, who can say?

I can't help wondering if the guide held back, and tried shouting instead of shooting, on the chance that he might save the kids from seeing an elephant shot down in front of them?

Truly a tough break in any case.

Actors are nothing more than professional liars, like a lot of other folks around, eh?

People (actors, cops, politicians, climatologists ) are going say and do most anything to assure their paychecks, no matter the morality of right and wrong.

Hollywood is anti-gun, anti-hunting (the list is endless). Clint, Mr. Toughguy, in order to get his paycheck just bends over and says anything they want him to.

So that makes it OK? The rest of the country should accept Eastwood as some kind of Hollywood manufactured idol? Isn't the effect of his remarks on young people about guns to be considered? Apart from that- C'mon, he's a hypocrite,through and through - because he wanted to get himself elected to the mayorship of some California Pacific Coast town -occupied by many rich Hollywood types. In my day, we would have said he was "gutless". - but then that's just me. He made a very great deal of money out of the witless types who love Hollywood images. (It's funny how I am accused of mistaking the role of an ACTOR for the real person. He is a grade A phony -and, quite frankly, I was disappointed to learn of his anti-gun attitudes late in life. I had liked him as an actor.

Not approving what he says but trying to offer a reasonable explanation.