Bowling for Columbine
"Bowling for Columbine" was a documentary film by Michael Moore which I found to be interesting, humorous, and an eye opener. "Bowling for Columbine" reminds us that this is a society where more than 11,000 people die every year from guns, where TV news and entertainment programs produce violent images, where banks give away rifles to customers, and where the public lives in fear of being robbed and killed. It shows us how easy it is to get a hand on a gun. For example, when Michael Moore went to the bank and set up an account there, he was able to get hold of a rifle. How easy is that? This film also shows people, who are gun crazy. Even though the amendment says you have the right to bare arms, it does not necessarily mean that you have to stock up on a whole bunch of guns. If it is for the protection of your family, there is no need to have more then 3 or 4 guns. You only have two hands so what is the point of Americans owning so many guns in there homes? We live in a society who own millions of handguns and the point is that Michael Moore is not bother by this, but rather something else. What bothers him is that we so frequently shoot them at one another. Canada has a similar ratio of guns to citizens,
American has been so use to watching the news and when a murder occurs, it is assume that an ethnic person is the one who did it. The thing is that after the war, there has yet to be any WMD found. They no longer want to live in fear but rather they want to be feared. One can't help but remember Franklin Roosevelt's famous declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself. Black people are not always the ones who are killing and shooting as it is portray on TV. They told him to come back tomorrow and he did, but this time with the media with him. To live in fear, we adopt a philosophy that we are nothing and we would never overcome this fear. We are in charge; people are in fear of us rather the other way around. We do not want to live in fear thus we have to be the ones who are feared by others. " Michael Moore notices how TV news focuses on local violence and says that while the murder rate is down 20 percent in America, TV coverage of violent crime is up 600 percent. When put in a situation or a place where we do not belong, fear takes a hold of us. He explains that all of the Columbine bullets were freely sold to the teenage killers by Kmart, at 17 cents apiece.
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