Our Knotted Gun

Gun violence is the number one cause of death among young people in the US. Confronting this crisis requires a change in conversation, and this screening pairs a film made by student journalists with a special preview of a docuseries work in progress, alongside a panel of local activists.

Our Knotted Gun

Our Knotted Gun, the first docuseries on gun violence, takes the mass shooting that occurred at Michigan State University on February 13, 2023 as its entry point for an exploration of this epidemic in all its complexity over a period of three years. It does so by documenting a range of responses by a diverse set of people who have decided that enough is enough.

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children and teens. “Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun” is a new 30-minute documentary about how gun violence affects young Americans, from PBS News Student Reporting Labs in collaboration with 14 student journalists from five U.S. cities: Philadelphia, Oakland, Washington D.C., Nashville, and East Lansing, Michigan. The documentary profiles how the same young people that have survived these traumatic events are leading the fight for a safer future.