'Sons of Anarchy' Season 6 on FX Shocks Fans & Critics Alike with Child Violence from Premiere 'Straw' Episode

 

 

 

'Sons of Anarchy' Season 6 Premiere 'Straw' Episode Shocks Fans & Critics Alike with Child Violence 

 

"Sons of Anarchy" Season 6 premiered last night with Episode 1 entitled 'Straw' and creator Kurt Sutter did not waste any time sparking controversy. 

The episode included a shocking scene towards where a boy walks grabs a KG-9 from his backpack and calmly walks into a school full of children and opens fire on them. The scene is saddening, disturbing and shocking all at once. 

If a scene like that isn't bad enough in theory, it is 100% escalated with the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings less than a year old. When watching the scene, you can't help but think about Sandy Hook and the pain that everyone was feeling. 

Sutter said this about the school shooting scene, ""I've wanted to do [this] story for about three years, and I knew, obviously, that it would be somewhat controversial, but I feel like, you know, as much as I wouldn't do something because it was controversial, I'm also not going to [not] do something because it's controversial."

He continued, "I feel like it's an organic story to our world, in terms of, it's what these guys do. I feel like that will continue to play out, and that is the truth. There's a lot of blood and guts in my show, and it is a signature of the show, but I feel like I'm not lying to myself when I say that nothing is done gratuitously, that the events that happen in the premiere are really the catalyst for the third act of this morality play we're doing."

Social media blew up during the 'Sons of Anarchy' season premiere with some justifying the scene and many critiziing it. Some even swore off watching the show from now on after what they saw. 

What do you think about "Sons of Anarchy" including the school shooting scene?