Kill At Will: America On Trial (2012)

Panorama: Kill At Will: America On Trial (2012)

… BBC One documentary series ‘Panorama‘ takes a look at America’s disturbing gun-culture by focusing on 3 recent cases that shocked the nation: 16 year old Trayvon Martin‘s profiled murder at the hands of self-appointed neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman; Texas grandfather Joe Horn’s shooting to death two burglars robbing his neighbors house; and the Aurora Theater mass-shootings, a.k.a  the ‘Dark Knight Rises massacre‘…

“Ahead of America’s costliest-ever elections, Raphael Rowe investigates how powerful lobby groups helped create laws blamed for one of the most controversial killings in recent US history. The shooting dead of a 17-year-old teenager by a neighbourhood watchman polarised America, provoked presidential intervention and shone a light on an extreme American law, called ‘Stand Your Ground’. It provides immunity from prosecution or, as some say, a ‘License to Kill’. But does gun politics also show how America really works? Panorama asks: is American democracy for sale?….” BBC One