I watched this earlier this week, have heard some of the controversy and wanted to see it for myself. I'm not an NRA fan, would never own a gun but grew up with them and know that not every one that owns one is a wacko. I'm pretty much in the middle politically really depends on the issue.
This just seemed like more of a propaganda exercise than a true search for facts or reason behind the issues facing our society in relationship to guns / violence.
As best as I can tell the issues he attributes to contributing to Columbine was that a major company in the area produced weapons and the media.
The media seemed to be a bad guy in most of it, can't really understand that bent since much of the film was very journalistic and not in a good way.
The NRA is of course also to blame, Heston most of all. Found a
website that gives a true time line of things that happened and how some of the sound bites were altered for the film.
The clear culprit in the MI death of a little girl was the back to work laws that forced his mom to work 2 jobs to support her family. I wondered how someone who worked 2 jobs couldn't pay the rent and was forced to move in with relatives where her son found a gun to take to school. There are several links on the website above that do indeed tell a much different story.
I won't be bothering to see another one of his films, I don't mind a different point of view and enjoy seeing things presented even with a bias but this was just too much bias for me.
Do most believe that the media, NRA, weapons industry and welfare reform are to blame for the violence in today's youth? I just don't think it's that pat or such an easy answer.
This just seemed like more of a propaganda exercise than a true search for facts or reason behind the issues facing our society in relationship to guns / violence.
As best as I can tell the issues he attributes to contributing to Columbine was that a major company in the area produced weapons and the media.
The media seemed to be a bad guy in most of it, can't really understand that bent since much of the film was very journalistic and not in a good way.
The NRA is of course also to blame, Heston most of all. Found a
website that gives a true time line of things that happened and how some of the sound bites were altered for the film.
The clear culprit in the MI death of a little girl was the back to work laws that forced his mom to work 2 jobs to support her family. I wondered how someone who worked 2 jobs couldn't pay the rent and was forced to move in with relatives where her son found a gun to take to school. There are several links on the website above that do indeed tell a much different story.
I won't be bothering to see another one of his films, I don't mind a different point of view and enjoy seeing things presented even with a bias but this was just too much bias for me.
Do most believe that the media, NRA, weapons industry and welfare reform are to blame for the violence in today's youth? I just don't think it's that pat or such an easy answer.
