When I was a kid I used to take all my toys apart.
And then put them back together
and usually they still had the same number of pieces.
As an adult I like shooting guns because there's
there’s a meditation to it.
Because when you are holding a gun
you have to be
totally focused on the gun,
because if you are not
you are going get hurt or you
can hurt somebody else
You have to be mindful of your breath,
you've got to be mindful
of the position of your hand,
you have to be mindful of your stance.
And all the mechanics work together
and so the last part of it,
is firing of the bullet.
The last part of it is
hitting your intended target.
I am a child of liberty, ok?
I have all my rights.
I have all my freedoms.
I am a child of this country.
So I feel very protective,
of whatever rights we have.
The Second Amendment,
which gives me the right,
not the privilege,
but the right to have guns.
It's like, you know,
I have that right.
And I am going to exercise that right.
My name is Peter Hankoff,
I make documentary films for TV.
I am a screenwriter.
I like fireworks.
I like...
noise.
My European friends, they are like,
"Well it's not safe,
you have a gun in the house,
it is not safe,
you are increasing your odds."
All those things are very true,
if you are not a responsible gun owner.
But I don’t look at it that way.
It is my right.
It's part of my right
to keep and bear arms.
I am going to keep and bear arms.
You want to make it not my right
to keep and bear arms?
We'll talk.
I mean, it is the Second Amendment;
it's not the 22nd Amendment.
It's like boom! It's right after
freedom of religion and press and speech.
It's like, all right,
you have all those things
and you get guns. Ok?
It's not: "Oh, soldiers can't come
in your house and hang out."
No, no, no.
It's not: "Oh, you have the right
to remain silent." No.
It's like: Boom. It's number two.
There's a reason for that.
It's to protect speech, it’s to protect religion,
it's to protect assembly.
It is to protect these things. As an American.
What are you having to shoot now?
Number one buck.
Number one buck? Ok.
Well, I like number one buck.
Are there different levels of gunshots?
Yeah. I like this one.
This is a deer slug. There's only one thing in it.
Whoa.
Look at that.
I think when I was young,
and growing up in the 50s
and the early 60s,
I would look at westerns and stuff,
and think, "Oh, yeah, I wanna be a cowboy!"
There's pictures of me when I was a kid
wearing cowboy gear.
But that's not the way it is.
As an adult I have a very different view
of shooting guns and what
I like about shooting guns.
A gun is not something to be taken lightly.
It is not my first line of defense;
let's jut put it that way.
This is the last thing I want
to pull out on somebody.
It's the last line of defense.
Wouldn't you feel safer if
that person didn't have a gun?
Or if no one was allowed to have a gun?
I don't believe in nobody should
be allowed to have a gun.
I know, me neither, I am actually...
I am not pro-gun,
I am pro-responsible gun owning.
Me too. I am the same way.
I believe in responsibility.
This is a deadly weapon.
But I also think that is true for a car.
You know, that is also...
kills more people.
Obviously, if you have a gun
in the environment, you are increasing
your chances of using the gun
in the environment.
I think that people that own guns should...
A lot of people won't agree
with me but I don't care.
I think that if you want to own a gun,
they should take you to a range and they should see if you can past the test.
If you can't pass the test, well,
you know, you have the right to bear arms,
go get a sword. You know?
Obviously you don't know
what your are doing with a gun.
There is not a question in my mind
that this is a gun crazy country.
Ok? I would never try
and say this is not a gun crazy country.
This country was founded with guns.
This country will die with guns.