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Gun Fight, by two-time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple, takes a fresh look at the impact of guns in America, through vivid stories of people who have a personal stake in the issue. With an estimated 250 million privately-owned guns in America, about 30,000 people are killed by guns in the U.S. every year, and another 65,000 wounded. The debate about how to decrease gun violence has raged for years, with one side campaigning for stricter regulations on gun ownership, and the other side, led by the National Rifle Association (arguably the most powerful lobby in the U.S.) countering that any controls are an infringement of freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Bill of Rights. Through characters like a gun lobbyist steeped in politics, an ER doctor turned gun researcher, gunshot victims (among them a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre) and young people trying to make sense of how guns play into their lives, GUN FIGHT provides a fresh perspective on an unavoidable part of America's image and reality.
Directed by BARBARA KOPPLE | USA | 2011 |
Produced by Marc N Weiss
Due to copyright restrictions, this video can only be viewed on RT’s live feed. Time of broadcast is available on RT’s schedule page.
February, 2012
1 9:30, 13:30, 17:30
2 0:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 13:30
3 0:30
I feel sorry for these people fighting against gun owners. They are seriously deluded. The government through all of its three branches have been systematically stripping the citizens of the US of their rights. The NDAA being the most recent egregious example (and PIPA and SOPA being the most recent attempt). It's only because of the NRA that we still have our second amendment rights!!! As for the events of Columbine and other places where there were mass shootings, the dark dirty secret which no one talks about is that fact that without fail, everyone of those individuals were on psychotropic drugs. Only one person, Gary Null has even mentioned this in a documentary he did showing that one of the side effects of many of those drugs is hallucionatory episodes where the person is not conscious of what they are doing. This effect is magnified when the person on the drug suddenly stops taking them rather than being weaned off them over time. It's not the guns, it's the drugs!!! If you want to see the documentaries on this it's called Prescription fo Disaster and The Drugging of our Children.
I hope this series is not an indication that RT is taking the Democratic Party "progressive" approach that outlawing guns will be any more successful than the War on Drugs, War on Terror, etc. Especially not as certain governments are obviously behaving unlawfully and irrationally.
So if only drugs were as available as guns, we would have no problems? I like the idea, lets go foward.