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That is an intresting point: How does one define or differentiate "fear-mongering" from "expose" from "information distribution"?
I think the inherent subjectivity would complicate things:
EX: Weather report - Tomorrow, rain - Oh no fear mongering, there's gonna be rain! OR, ok, it's going to rain tomorrow.
In the Moore example, I suppose one could cite his method of distributing information as being insightful and enciteful. For me personally, I didn't interpret it as fear mongering. However, on the nighty news, "Killer Bees attack LA" is certainly fear mongering to me or at the very least, sensationalist. Fear mongering would be if Moore was shouting "Oh my God, guns kill people! We must ban all guns before our children all die" or something like that.
I dunno, BFC didn't make me scared about gun crime. In fact, I felt it was backing us gun proponents. The question is one of culture not legality. at least that is how I saw it. It pointed out that legal guns weren't the problem, which is exactly what anti-gun people are always trying to do: restrict legal gun rights.
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