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The doc on TVO? Up in Arms?
For anyone who missed this, it is airing again, several times, and will be available to stream online on TVO's website as of tomorrow. There will also be a discussion of related issues on The Agenda with Steve Paikin tomorrow at 9 pm.
Taping it. Watching Jays game.
Watching it now as well. Al Simmions seems to be used a lot thus far,
For regular TV watches, the show will air again on TVO Fri eve at 10:00...
You still have tapes?Quote:
Originally Posted by kickingfrog
You can see it online at this link:
http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/u...canada-feature
It was a well executed documentary...with a clear anti-gun undertone.
Here's a commentary posted on the Up In Arms Facebook page.
http://jamesbawden.blogspot.ca/2015/...cumentary.htmlQuote:
When a copy of a new TVO documentary was sent to me in late August I somehow found reasons not to watch it.
Then I noticed the name of the film maker --Nadine Pequeneza (15 To Life, Bomb Hunters) --and curiosity got the best of me.
I can now report Up In Arms, a stinging commentary on the ominous transition to a gun culture in Canada is must viewing.
One of its strengths is the unusually long length --for contemporary Canadian television.
At 75 minutes it is by far too long for a CBC hour long slot (44 minutes plus 16 minutes of commercials).
So although I believe it is deserving of a national TV network slot I'm still grateful for TVOntario for showing it completely uncut.
You can watch it on TVO Wednesday September 23 at 9 p.m. Got that?
After watching I now believe this is the most important TV show to watch before deciding how you'll cast your ballot in the upcoming federal election --forget those silly and staged leaders' "debates".
My first reaction was one of complete surprise.
I had absolutely no idea the gun lobby was so powerful here --and it is growing by leaps and bounds.
First shock: there are 10 million privately owned guns in Canada.
I had to stop the tape and think about that for a few moments.
Pequeneza has done her homework, yes, and she has a definite point of view.
There's none of that balanced on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand.
At the same time she's very fair to everyone concerned.
She goes to gun shows and gets the points of view of the militant gun fanatics. She paints them as concerned and often very loquacious in defense of what they consider their rights.
She follows Tony Bernardo, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association who is very well versed and hardly a fanatic.
We see how he is trying to get the new gun control act Bill C-42 through Parliament --ironically it is due tro come to a crucial debate just as Parliament is hit by a mad gun man.
Just as compelling is John Evers, Ontario Regional Director for the CSSA.
And considerable time is spent at the gun store run by grandmotherly Pauline Langois whose store Al Simmons Gun Shop has been in the same location for 40 years.
Balanced against these scenes are the ominous feelings of police chief Bill Blair who makes some great points about getting local initiatives started to keep teens off guns.
We get to know 18-year old Alex who grew up in Regent Park, did drugs in the lobby and on stairwells, in a gun culture made possible by illegal guns imported from the U.S.
Strangest scenes? The comments of a convicted U.S. gun smuggler now in a U.S, penitentiary who describes how he got his gun cargoes across an increasingly porous boundary.
The best thing about Pequeneza's approach is her slow, methodical style that gets us right into the debate and her refusal to go for quick fix answers.
She keeps us watching with fine editing and camerawork and her instinctive feeling for what makes the best camera shots.
The new TV season is only just beginning but I'm betting Up In Arms will be a contender for all kinds of awards by season's end.
This doc was done quite a while ago before it finally aired when Mulcair and Trudeau initially shot their mouths off and then had to backtrack in one h**l of a hurry. OPP Supt. Wyatt is merely parroting the Liberal party line as is quite typical in the Ontario public service. We all know where that's coming from,rocket science it ain't. Rest well assured that if the PC's won an election tomorrow,public service would do the most stunning about face in history. That's just how duplicitous they are and the OPP is at the top of the list. I haven't watched the entire doc,but,it appears to me to be quite typical....fairly good,but,typical.Quote:
Originally Posted by mosquito
The whole program was simply meant to show the sub culture of illegal guns on the street. At no time did it portrait the 100's of thousands of hunters across Canada who legally use their firearms in pursuit of their passion. There were no interviews of hunters? No filming of a family sitting down to dinner enjoying the turkey that was harvested? Instead, they went out of their way to show the illegal use of guns and focused on the porous border border issue of gun smuggling.
Biased to the nth degree!
I would say this doc didn't show hunters not out of bias but because by and large hunters represent a kind of middle ground. The aim seems to have been to contrast what's happening in our most troubled communities with our newly confident gun lobby, which argues for more and more deregulation, and to illustrate the gulf that exists between the two -- a gulf so wide that we see Tony Bernardo saying he doesn't understand those horrible little monsters, and then we see a horrible little monster, Alex.
One thing they might have explored is the way gun owners who think our system works just fine as is are derided as fudds by the folks who drive the gun lobby: you're either on board with the agenda John Evers lays out in the closing scene, or you're the enemy. So the entire middle ground of Canadian gun owners is invisible.
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Originally Posted by Bushmoose
Myself and a few other gunnie friends found it well put together and fairly unbiased. They showed the target shooting side okay.. they also showed the crime side well.. I didn't get the hint at anytime watching this that they pro gun control.. or any gun Control.. I was waiting for the "guns are evil" portion to come Into play.Quote:
Originally Posted by awndray
They used the gang members well.. I got from them the feeling that they were saying they could get a gun illegal as easy as buying Crack... (actually the girl said that) the smuggler interviewed mentioned how canada is a country that people LOVE smuggling guns Into the country.. since in a us street the get $100-$300 a gun canada the same gun is $1500-$3k... Wyatt was his typical douche.. even Blair didn't come across as "anti gun" saying that we have to address the social and economic issues..
Also found some of the demonstrations on gun laws was okay.. but could of been better..
Eg. When the cssa regional director (sorry can't remember his name) was in west Virginia doing three gun.. he was removing the magazine block on his benneli shotgun.. he was talking about how sporting events in Canada is at a disadvantage due to magazine laws.. (the documentary did not delve into it)
Also the documentary said "only way for criminals to obtain a gun, is to steal one. Or buy an illegal from the street" (this was followed by the surveillance video of a car smashing into al Simmons gun shop.. then they talked about straw buying. (New method first seen in 2013) where a licensed person buys a restricted and grinds off serial sells it on the street.. however this was proven to be a bad idea as the guy was caught in a matter of days...
Pleas explain to me the anti gun feeling you got? I was looking for it.. but didn't find it.. neither did I find pro gun..
Edit.
My takeaway feelings from the video were more "how do we stop the criminal trade of guns" not so much "are guns worth having in canada"
Chris
Figure of speech... or type in this case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Also re-airing on Sunday at 11pm
in my opinion, its decent piece of journalism like it should be (its a start). focusing on unbiased but reporting it from both perspective. i like how it addressed the socioeconomical status of poverty trying to acquire the guns illegally, spoke of certain individuals of mass shootings and their prohibition of possession and still manage to acquire it illegally. overall they did mention that the legal owners are the ones that pay the price for illegal activities which they don't commit.
couple of new things to me was 'straw purchase' and Bill Blair wasn't anti-gun, but spoke more of socioeconomical status of communities where safety is a concern. however it does out the hunters part.
I thought it was pretty obvious. The ominous music for one...Quote:
Originally Posted by topher
Here's the follow up with Steve Paikin, Nadine Pequeneza (producer of Up In Arms) and A.J. Somerset (author of Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun).
http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-ag...kin/up-in-arms