The Right of the People is a 1986 made-for-TV crime drama movie starring Michael Ontkean, Billy Dee Williams, Jane Kaczmarek, Jamie Smith Jackson and Lisa Jakub, with special guest John Randolph.
He wrote the script in outrage over the mass murder during the robbery of a Los Angeles Bob's Big Boy restaurant in 1980.
[1] At the network's request, Bloom revised his original script to increase anti-gun viewpoints in the story.
One evening, his wife, Angela, and daughter Katie, are among several people shot to death in a robbery by two ex-cons.
Nonetheless, Wells' proposal passes and the movie explores Bloom's visions of an armed public.