How The NRA Is Making Bank Off Of Urban Gun Violence

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Chicago’s long-standing bad rap on gun violence drew fresh attention in the first months of 2016 when early numbers suggested that the city was facing one of its worst homicide rates in years.

Throughout the decades-long debate over the city’s seemingly intractable gun violence problem, there’s little consensus on what’s behind the scourge; citizens have blamed everything from gang members to gun regulation to scrutiny of the police. In his new documentary, filmmaker Robert Greenwald suggests a different root cause: the NRA.

In the recently released “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA,” Greenwald explores how the lucrative gun industry and the powerful gun lobby puts profit over people by scuttling legislative efforts to address even the most common-sense gun law reforms.

“There’s a profit motive here,” Greenwald said. “Many of these parents are paying a terrible price for it.”

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