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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Film is based on false premises
The file practices revisionist history , uses false analogies and anecdotal situations. It sounds allot like an evangelical sermon. The abuse of statistics and a poor or misguided understanding of history makes this file intellectually dishonest. The constant reference to the founding fathers and the declaration of independence as being devout Christians or inspired by Christian ideals is a patent falsehood. The founding fathers were mostly deists and agnostics and better read than many members of the present day congress. They insisted on the separation of church and state as they were aware of the European conflicts and upheavals caused by religious zealots. The gun culture in the U S. is nothing to be proud of but rather the a symptom of a deeply disturbed society in need of help.
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- May 5, 2017
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- $250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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- 16:9 HD
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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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