I watched it . . .
Can you say one-sided, agenda-driven propaganda hit piece?
They started off "training" people how to use a "real" gun loaded with Simunitions. Then they put each one in a classroom-type scenario where they were given a Glock in an ill-fitting holster "concealed" under a tight long-sleeve T-shirt - a bad guy unexpectedly burst in and started shooting people. Not one of the "students" - people who they emphasized had MORE training than most concealed weapon holders - was able to effectively deploy the weapon and stop the shooter.
Maybe the
heavy gloves they were wearing were a factor . . . and of course, in one of the scenarios (just to be certain that the gun wouldn't be a lifesaver) they had a second bad guy hidden among the other "students" in the classroom who was ready to take out the test subject just in case he DID respond effectively.
To show how impossibly hard guns are to operate, they showed a snippet of the famous "Rasta Man" video ("I'm the only one in this room professional enough to . . . BANG! Owww! My foot!) to demonstrate that even police don't know what they're doing, despite lots and lots of training. So how can an untrained civilian cope?
They emphasized running away and/or playing dead.
(Note: what other options are there if you've been disarmed?)And of course, they showed that kids are idiots . . . rerunning some of the footage from years ago to show that despite Eddie Eagle training, kids played with guns. And they set up some teenagers (looked like they picked slackers/stoners) to accidentally "find" guns when they were clearing a garage; if not rehearsed, they were clearly from the shallow end of the gene pool, doing things like looking down the barrel of a .357 revolver with a flashlight to see whether or not it was loaded. :rolleyes:
(It looked rehearsed to me.)And they had a guy - the surviving brother of one of the Virginia Tech victims - go into a gun show with $5000 cash to illustrate the "gun show loophole" by buying guns . . . after which they (of course) called a Virginia legislator to ask him why HE hadn't closed the "gun show loophole."
As expected, there wasn't the slightest attempt to present an opposing viewpoint (they claimed the NRA declined an "interview"). It was pure, unadulterated, advocacy journalism at its worst, and Ms. Sawyer showed herself to be as thoroughly unprofessional as anyone I've seen on TV pretending to the title "Journalist."