There are 400 million guns in America.
Each year, more than 40,000 people are shot and killed.
Twice as many survive.
There have already been 46 mass shootings just in January 2024.
This Vice documentary attempts to figure out how we got here, even showing the history in Austin of mass shootings which dates back to August 1, 1966 when Charles Whitman opened fire at the University of Texas. Nearly everyone is connected to someone that has been involved in gun violence by now.
So what do we do? Is there any way to stop this? Is America based on the gun as it is?
This documentary doesn’t have many answers but it does show you where things are. It’s such a strange thing for me to navigate as I like shooting guns, but I also understand that there are some guns that no one should own. I don’t know the line and you know, I have no clue if we can ever solve it. Yet every mass shooting they say that no one knew it was coming and we know. We know every single day.
You can watch this on Tubi.
