Shooter: No Longer Entertaining

Sometimes fiction gets a little too close to reality.  Here is the pitch for Shooter from the USA Network, originally set to premiere tonight:

Ryan Phillippe (“Secrets and Lies”) is a producer on the project and will star as Bob Lee Swagger, an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.  Omar Epps (“House”) plays Isaac Johnson, an ex-Marine and former commanding officer of Swagger.  Now a Secret Service Agent, he solicits Swagger’s expertise for a clandestine operation that has disastrous results. 

The USA Network has decided to pull back and let the news run out on actual shootings, including an ex-Marine who just killed three police officers in Baton Rouge. Of course, this follows the ex-Army soldier who killed five police officers in Dallas. Do you see a trend?

Shooter should return on the fall or later once civility returns to America. It may be a long wait.