Under the Gun (2016)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Just perfect...

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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.

This film is an anti-gun diatribe against lawful gun owners, while giving real criminals (like gang bangers in Chicago killing themselves and others) a pass.Dr. John Lott has been an outspoken advocate of "More Guns, Less Crime". He is a celebrated criminal justice academic. His books about the failure of gun control have never been refuted.Dr. Lott had spent approximately six hours being interviewed for Under the Gun. Prior to the film's release, however, when Ms. Soechtig was asked whether her film featured any gun-rights experts (anyone besides persons "very strongly tilted towards gun control"), she confirmed that Dr. Lott had been interviewed but his input and information were not being used. "We did a great piece on him. He's the originator of the idea that more guns equal less crime. When we went to include his research in the film, it felt like unnecessary real estate to put in the film…We kept going back to the idea that we wanted to reserve the real estate in the film for the responsible gun owners." As biased and unscrupulous as the "official" response on the exclusion of John Lott may be, it now appears that some Lott footage made it into the film, but was taken out after Michael Bloomberg allegedly insisted on its removal. According to a recent interview with John Cardillo, "They were going to run it, and Bloomberg and Couric had a private screening and after that screening" the Lott footage was deleted.For those that don't know, Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire that wants to ban guns from all law abiding citizens. It now appears that he and Katie Couric conspired to hide the truth about gun controls failures over the years by "massaging the facts". They refused to show both sides of the story, which is what journalists are supposed to do.This documentary is a joke. Do not see it, or you risk encouraging Couric and her crappy producers to create similar trash in the future.

Exposed as a lie by the actual audio recording of Virginia Citizen's Defense League's group interview. Under the Gun showed VCDL members sitting in silence when asked about background checks, but the members actually responded immediately and for four solid minutes. Today (May 31, 2016) EPIX pulled this mockumentary from their programming. Katie Couric and other movie staff have issued half-hearted apologies for misrepresenting the VCDL. This movie needs to be re-edited for accuracy, or burned. In no way is it, as advertised, balanced. At their website http://underthegunmovie.com/ they list a multitude of anti-gun partners, but no pro-gun organizations are represented.

Stephanie Soechtig got caught. LOL.I guess the documentary was so bad that she needed to 'spice it up' by adding some fiction to the film.Just search "audio shows Katie Couric gun documentary deceptively edited interview pro gun activists" and you'll see how this 'film' represents the worst of the documentary genre.Stephanie you have a responsibility to at least pretend to represent the story in a minimally truthful manner. Just how many other edits did you make to spice things up?When did it become OK to release a 'documentary' that was as much fantasy as fact? It reminds me of the '80's when NBC used model rocket engines to set fire to a car so they could prove the point of their story, that the car was a fire hazard.Good luck on your future films. Now any documentary you make will be suspect.