George Gittoes is that Australian guy who made the incredible Soundtrack To War documentary a few years ago about what American soldiers were listening to while they were taking out the enemy in Iraq. While filming there, George met a rapper who told him that his hometown in Miami made Baghdad look like Disneyland and invited George to visit after he had served his term. Rampage is basically the story of the rapper and his family who live in a near-deserted ghetto in Miami called Browns Sub. It’s completely amazing and fucked up and it makes you realise just how bad for people guns are. Everyone there owns a gun and kids play with guns and guess what? Tonnes of people die. Crazy…

We saw Rampage a couple of days ago; the same day in fact that Victorian Premiere Steve Bracks was promising everyone in the Victorian Police Force an upgrade to semi-automatic weapons and tasers if he wins the election. That’s great and all but it seems pretty stupid to jeopardise the kind of comparatively safe environment that we are lucky enough to have here. There’s a very good chance that more powerful weapons are a bad idea. If you also take into consideration the fact that Victoria has the highest incidence of police shooting fatalities already and that the same guns used by Police are the very guns that generally end up being sold on the black market to people who aren’t Police, then there’s really no argument.

Rampage is in cinemas on Nov 30th and if you like guns now, you probably won’t after seeing this.