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Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA (2016)
What the NRA doesn't want you to know
Fortunately, this film's main victory, besides offering potential solutions to our current gun violence epidemic, is that it exposes the NRA as a lobbying organization that is predominantly funded by the gun companies. Very similar to Big Tobacco. Remember how tobacco lobbyists spent huge amounts of money to cover up studies that proved cigarettes were bad for you? How they encouraged pregnant women to smoke? With full knowledge of the true harm being caused, they lead the American public astray because there was just too much money at stake. Their greed surpassed their ethics and morality. The very same thing is happening here - and their tactics have only become more twisted and deceitful. If the NRA was actually acting in the interest of its members, why would it fight against universal background checks when 83% of gun owners support background checks? It just doesn't add up.
This film blends personal stories and intimate instances of gun violence with larger statistics and facts that give the bigger picture - this isn't just one person's struggle, but the reality of far too many Americans. The film pries into the true numbers of who is bankrolling the NRA and what lengths they are willing to go to in order to protect the profits of gun manufacturers. It is very important to watch this film so a glimpse of the truth can be seen through all of the media spin, slick commercials, and internet celebrities that appeal to your sense of independence, your fear, your need for safety, and turn those very things against you.