This documentary from Wintons Motion Pictures asks and answers the increasingly tough questions regarding gun control in America.This documentary from Wintons Motion Pictures asks and answers the increasingly tough questions regarding gun control in America.This documentary from Wintons Motion Pictures asks and answers the increasingly tough questions regarding gun control in America.
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- TriviaIn February 2017, Writer/Director Jesse Winton wrote a piece on the Medium publishing platform publicly expressing regret for producing Targeted. In the piece, he said: "So, I regret making Targeted. I regret that it was fundamentally biased toward a particular viewpoint. I regret that it lacked empathy towards anyone that wasn't a supporter of the Second Amendment, instead judging their motives as evil. I regret that it was endorsed by someone who said that Rosa Parks' contribution to civil rights was 'absurdly inflated.' I regret that it was endorsed by someone who's sense of class prompted him to compare pictures of Hillary and Chelsea with pictures of Melania and Ivanka with the caption 'Make America Hot Again.' I regret that it lacked any empathy towards people that have lost loved ones to gun violence. I know that facts are facts, but I also know that the fact remains that people die through gun violence every day. I don't understand that experience, and I hope I never will, and while I still think freedom is the best form of government, I can't judge the people like the Sandy Hook parents. Saying all of this doesn't mean that I'm anti-gun, I'm not. It doesn't mean that I hate the NRA, (but I kind of do). It doesn't mean that I don't think that this is an important issue still, all issues of freedom are important. All it means is that I regret this project, and I wish that it wasn't what it was.
I can't change the past, but you can be pro-freedom and still pro-person. Regrettably, I didn't find the right line."
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Freedom to love your gun
The words 'Free' and 'Freedom' are spoken about 200 times in this so called documentary. I hate those words. The reason? The sunshine and lollipop idea people have of the meaning of those words does not exist in this world. Gun owner or not. It does not exist. Their biggest point in this documentary is that 'good gun owners' keep 'evil gun owners' at bay. When has a 'good' gun owner ever taken action in one of the hundreds of mass-shootings that have occurred in the US over the past few decades? Never. Not once. They run, like most people would, and the police go in and take control. A lot of 'good' gun owners buy assault rifles and hand guns without any formal training at all. In fact most gun owners in the United States have ZERO training in how to use a gun properly. There are no laws that require this. Now that is insane. The second amendment never had the concept of assault rifles or semi-automatic pistols in mind. It was written at a time when guns were used almost strictly for hunting. Stricter gun laws are badly needed in 2017, and that is not unconstitutional. Hunt all you want but Joe Blow from Atlanta does not need an assault rifle or semi-automatic. Its insanity. This documentary also fails to point out that the United States has, by far, the most guns crimes/death/murders/accidents of any nation on Earth. In fact you can add all of the other 'Free' nations of the world together and they don't come close to the number of gun crimes the US has. Baltimore alone has more gun crimes in a week than Canada has in a year. Those are the facts.
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- Apr 16, 2017
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- $250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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By what name was Targeted: Exposing the Gun Control Agenda (2016) officially released in Canada in English?
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