A look at the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children were murdered at school by a crazed gunman, but lead to no changes in American gun laws.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Just perfect...
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Not good at all. Very biased and sensationalist about a subject that deserves to be treated with more respect.How the makers of this film used the editing process to misrepresent the argument is well documented (and shameful!).This is part of the problem with the media in this and other countries, they have an agenda and they force it on people often in the face of the facts
I stumbled across this movie playing on cable and was initially turned off. Hearing someone talk about "guns" and "gun violence" is such a depressing and heated topic that I instantly was tempted to change the channel and get back to something mindless. But then a parent of a child killed by gun violence came on the screen and the next thing I knew, I was 30 minutes in. I rewound to the beginning of the movie and started again to get the appropriate context and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest.I've grown up with guns. I've seen the gun culture. I always felt it wasn't for me but I was never screaming mad about gun rights OR gun regulation. I just knew that all of these mass shootings had to be stopped somehow but that the NRA kept stopping gun regulations from being put into law. Now I understand a bit more about the history of our gun laws and the extent the NRA has gone to manipulate and strong-arm not only our politicians, but the very members of it's own organization. Of course, we all know that the NRA has a lot of political power, but no one really gets to see the ways in which they amassed this power and how they use it - and what they gain from it.This movie is in no way an attack on guns or gun owners. If anything, it opened my eyes to gun owners' perspectives and why they get so defensive about gun regulations. In it's entirety this film is a blistering expose on why our country does not have gun regulations and how absurd that is when real families are being devastated by this. It really is as simple as that.I think that it is important for the majority of us who know that something should be done but have no idea why it can't be done or how we can help to see films like this to open our eyes a bit into the situation at hand. And this film does more than that - it makes me want to act. It makes me ashamed that I was apathetic about this topic before because our country deserves better from it's citizens.
After this month's horrific murder in Orlando, and after marching Sunday with Moms Demand Action at the SF Pride Parade, and after calling politicians during the government sit-in last week, I knew I had to learn more about the stranglehold the NRA has placed on our government I just got off the couch from watching Katie Couric's newly released documentary (free on EPIX which Comcast doesn't offer I streamed for $0.99 on Amazon). I took a huge number of notes on all the atrocities I learned, which I know I'll need as ammunition for future gun battles ahead. (PUBLIC DISCLAIMER; I don't believe in taking anyone's guns away. I think that it should be harder to shoot a gun than to drive a car and believe in closing the terrorist watch list loophole.) I learned a ton with this less-than-2 hour documentary, and strongly recommend it to the members of Moms Demand Action/Everytown Against Gun Violence/the Brady Campaign and others interested in reducing gun violence – or learning why America is having such a hard time doing so. Yes I know there was one edit made unfairly for "the other side"... bottom line, this shares a lot of truths about why America can't change gun laws. If moms can lobby the automobile industry for safer cars and car seats - and win - then moms can do so with the NRA for gun safety and less gun violence. #Enough #DisarmHate
According to an article by David Hookstad writing for The Daily CallerNewly surface audio revealed that a Katie Couric-hosted documentary, called "Under the Gun," intentionally edited video to make pro-gun Americans appear dumbfounded.In the clip, Couric asks a group of pro-gun individuals from the Virginia Citizens Defense League, "If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?" In the film, the pro-gun group appears to be stunned into silence, with no apparent answer to the question. But a separate audio recording of the conversation reveals that the group responded quickly, and hit Couric back with nearly 4 minutes of thoughts on the subject. Virginia Citizens Defense League president Philip Van Cleave told The Washington Free Beacon, "Katie Couric asked a key question during an interview of some members of our organization. She then intentionally removed their answers and spliced in nine seconds of some prior video of our members sitting quietly and not responding. Viewers are left with the misunderstanding that the members had no answer to her question.