Bowling For Columbine
...n there is an interview with the president of the biggest weapons manufacturer in the United States, which I have forgotten. Then we get to the main thing in this documentary. The Columbine High School shooting. We see the clips from the surveillance cameras at the school and we can see the two boys running around shooting at everything. While we see the clips we hear the 911 calls some students and teachers made during the shooting. After this there is a clip with the National Rifle Association, the NRA, which held a big conference in the city within a week after the shooting. We also see protestors against this conference. Then there is a cartoon that shows how the Americans have come to love weapons as much as they do. Then there is a comparison between Canada and the U.S. How the media in the U.S. focuses on the violence, while the Canadian media has a much more broad spectrum of news. The Canadians have just as many weapons as the Americans, but the U.S. has 11000 murders a year involving firearms, whereas Canada has only 160. Then Michael Moore turns his head to Flint, the city where he grew up. There a six-year-old boy brought a gun to school and shot a six-year-old girl from his class. The questions Would fewer guns among the population cause fewer killings? Well the movie doesn’t quite answer that question, because there is more than just one thing that comes into play here. The media should stop focusing so much on the violence and see things in a broader perspective. The gun law should certainly be changed so it would be a lot harder to get hold of a gun. Why doesn’t Canada have as many killings, they have just as many weapons? Canada is much more peaceful because the violence hysteri...