"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, but a 10th of the shooting deaths. What makes us kill so many times more fellow citizens than is the case in other developed nations? Canadians are our neighbor, but yet they live a more non-violent life. They leave their doors unlock and the death rate in Canada is less than that of the U.S. The U.S is so equip with violence that the media sort of adopted the slogan "It bleeds, it leads." 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. In the documentary, when Michael Moore was talking to the cop, the cop attention was more on the violence rather then being interviewed. He kept on i...