By Bob Walsh
Katie Couric recently put together a film on the “gun culture” in the United States. It is called UNDER THE GUN.
The film, directed by Stephanie Soechtig, left a lot on the cutting room floor, including most of the interviews with solid, well thought out and expressive pro-gun people, like John Lott. That is to be expected, even though the director said “We kept going back to the idea that we wanted to reserve the real estate in the film for responsible gun owners.”
There is an interesting bit in the film where Couric asks a room full of gun owners a question. She asks how “terrorists or felons” can be prevented from getting guns if there are no background checks. The response (in the film) is nine seconds of silence and a group of people sitting around with a “deer in the headlights” look.
What actually happened is the group gave prompt and reasonable responses to the question. The nine seconds was b-roll shot of the room before the program even started. The cut and final presentation was clearly done to make gun owners look like dullards who were unable to respond reasonably to a reasonable question.
That is simple, basic intellectual dishonesty. It shows the anti-gun crowd cannot hope to reasonably win on their arguments, so they work very hard to make pro-gun people look like retards.
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