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Active Voices: Gun Reform Activism in Rochester, New York (2019)
Slander piece that ignores facts.
It ignores facts. For example, it references (albeit without citing numbers) the statistic that guns kept in the home are 25 times more likely to be used to kill a family member than a criminal but ignores the fact that when guns are used defensively, the criminal only dies about 0.1% of the time. This translates to 40 defensive gun uses for each family member who dies by the use of a household firearm.
It ignores the fact that guns used in crimes are overwhelmingly carried by people who are already prohibited by existing gun laws from possessing them. These criminals get away with flaunting existing gun laws, because they know the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from searching them.
The solution to gun violence is not to take any more chunks out of the Second Amendment. The solution is to start taking chunks out of the Fourth Amendment. This would make existing gun laws enforceable and allow police to arrest criminals for violating those laws before they kill anybody.
Naughty (2019)
Delightfully disturbing in all the right ways.
A small time burglar dressed as Santa Claus is found by a young girl stealing presents. He tries to play it off as some of the presents being defective, so he is replacing them. The girl states she was concerned about being on the naughty list.
Pizza: A Love Story (2019)
A bunch of extra toppings.
I was expecting exclusively a documentary about the three pizzerias themselves, but this film has a bunch of extra toppings included. The film also explores the immigration experience of many Italian and other immigrants who took factory jobs and how pizza was one of the foods they could reasonably afford (a tradition that remains for many college students). The film continues with the gentrification of slum neighborhoods through eminent domain and how pizza continued to unite the people displaced from their homes.
It is a must see.