Moore´s movie and gun control

How has watching Moore´s movie changed your ideas about gun control and the causes of gun violence? Critics of Moore argue that he is merely a propagandist and that he doesn´t tell the "real" story. Others also critize his methods; for example, Moore often pretends to be a friend of someone he wants to interview and then humiliates that person (e.g. Charlton Heston). What do you think of Moore´s methods? Is the film successful? Why or why not?

Imagine that you were writing to Moore to pitch a movie: what movie would you like to see Moore film? Pitch it to him on your blog.

* Watching the Moore´s movie gave me a wide point of view regard to who has the responsibility of the gun and violence control, and how the society tends to avoid facing this problematic situation.

First of all, media, music industry (singers like Marylin Manson, producers, etc.), and advertisement world, who blame government for provide a poor control on the gun commerce, are guilty for promoting violence and encouraging fears between audience in order to strength the market and increase their income.

On the other hand, family and schools blame media and commerce, but they should be aware of that they must play a more active role promoting values of respect of the life and human beings.
In contrast, the government always cares about obtain more power and money without pay attention of the consequences. Even though they claim that gun control should be increased; they do not adopt necessary measures to exert adequate control because they are receiving profits from that industry.
Moreover, they use guns and firearms during war times without any regret feeling or desire to protect and respect the human life.

To sum up, this movie has shown me that everybody is responsible of the current violence and death reality that we are living. Although everybody tries to blame each other, we all are part of the solution to stop this dramatic situation caused by use and commerce of gun control and violence.

Regarding to Moore´s methods, I think that sometimes he tries to seem like victim or friend so that obtain information to make the movie, which eventually increase his profits. It is possible that at the beginning, he had altruist purposes, but finally his last goal might have been collect a big amount of money.

Although his methods are not the most appropriate, I think they were effective and necessaries to acquire information. His movie was successful because he achieved his goal of show the reality of gun control, the loopholes in the actual regulation, and how all parts related to encourage the industry of arms blame each other without assume their own responsibility.

An interesting topic for the next Moore´s movie could be about “traffic of drugs”, which should show not only the production in countries like in Colombia, but also how the demand of countries like USA, encourages this illegal market. Furthermore, it should be included how this problem has affected poor people and how proposed methods by the governments are ineffective and unwise. In addition to that, it would be really important that the movie shows the positive things of countries like Colombia such as flora, fauna, kind people, trying to demonstrate that our country is not only violence, but it is life and joy.