Bowling for Columbine

It is too easy for U.S citizens to get guns, resulting in homicides and violence. Every year 11,237 people are killed by guns in the U.S, 381 people in Germany, 255 people in France, 163 people in Canada, 68 people in U.K, 65 people in Australia, and 39 people in Japan.  It may have something to do with the fact that news reporters only showed the low lights in that specific part of town, scaring everyone into owning a gun “to feel safe” but the truth is that no one will be safe, for example, on the news a reporter says at 55:32 “What you do know, may kill you.” After that there is a report on how “an escalator may kill you or a loved one.” They called it “the stairway to danger.” If it was more difficult for  U.S citizens to get guns news reporters wouldn’t be scaring everyone into getting a gun.

The U.S citizens think that there are more murders and violence in U.S because “Canadians don’t watch as much violent movies” as shown at 1:10:50 in the movie “There’s no poverty in Canada like there is here” as shown in 1:11:29. At 1:40-3:12 in the movie it shows Michael Moore walking into a bank, opening a trust fund and receive a free gun. At 42:38 people in the U.S blamed Marilyn Manson for the shooting in Columbine high school because it was said that the killers all listened to his music. At 22:42 in the documentary it shows this General standing in front of a missile explaining how the U.S only use the missiles to protect their country while Michael Moore states “And the U.S just bombed another town that no one can pronounce”.

In the documentary, Michael Moore shows that people in the U.S lock their doors at night or when they leave the house because they are scared that people may break in and steel their stuff, as in Canada nobody locks their doors because nobody cares enough to do it, they say “I would rather have people just walk in and take something rather then break in and steal something.” Again on the news a reporter exclaims “one out of five American citizens has a mental disease, advising people to seek help now.” With everything that U.S citizens see on the news I don’t blame them for carrying a gun.

At 56:05 George W. Bush makes a speech in the documentary saying “Today the justice department did issue a blanket alert, it was in recognition of a general threat that we received, this is not the first time the justice department has acted like this, I hope it’s the last, but given the attitude of the evil doers it may not be.” This statement made must have scared all the Americans, given more the reason that they all own guns. This includes a 6 year old boy who shot a little girl because he found the gun at his uncle’s house and brought it to school.

At 1:37:05 Michael Moore goes and interviews the president of the NRA, the president of the NRA claims that he has the right the own a gun because of the 2^nd amendment, when Michael Moore asking him why he had a loaded gun he just kept repeating himself and getting all defensive. When Michael Moore keeps attacking him with questions, he gets up and walks away, he simply doesn’t care about the fact that a little girl was shot by a little boy, heartless. If the president of the NRA had cared a little bit he could have made a change.