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Biased and dissapointing
I would say before I got involved in firearms, that I really didn't have much of an opinion on gun ownership. I figured what people did was their own business and that it didn't affect me. <
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>As I started reading more into Columbine, I saw Michael Moores documentary called "Bowling For Columbine" and I had remembered seeing his film on Flint, Michigan when I was in highschool. I figured the documentary was going to be about Columbine, not about gun culture. Either way, the documentary started off pretty good and I couldn't really tell the direction it was headed. The direction of the film sounded like it was criticizing American culture rather than guns until the film compared us to Canada and the rest of the world how "similar" we were. The problem is, Moore makes the assertion that somehow Canada and the rest of the world are safehaven utopias where you can reside with your doors unlocked with a low number of murder statistics. What he fails to mention is the size of our country and many of the issues that are a result of it. <
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>Take in account Canada, a population of 32,984,700 in 2007. The US has a population of 302,213,000. Population wise, we are going to have more homocides. What Moore failed to state was that Canada while they may have gun registration is that before it was ever implented into Canada, the murder rates have been unchanged for the most part and crime has actually increased. Does this signify that guns were never the problem in Canada to begin with? The same applys for the United Kingdom, before handguns were outlawed, the murder rate and gun crime was actually lower than it is now. While the European nations may have supposed "low" murder rates, gun ownership rates really have nothing to do with it but rather what fuels violence. <
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>In the US for example, much of our crime is black on black crime, gang warfare, the drug trade, and illegal aliens coming into this country. Actually 20 percent of our prison population are illegal aliens. The folks killing each other are not law abiding gun owners. <
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>Moore also fails to mention how some of the most violent nations are those that actually have some of the most strict gun control laws in effect. Mexico, South Africa, India, Russia all have much higher murder rates than our country yet they have very strict laws pertaining to who can actually have a gun legally. <
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>Overall the movie was nothing more than propaganda meant to look like a sceptical view of gun ownership. I was rather dissapointed with the film. I've watched it 3 different times to try and get an understanding from Michaels point of view but I think that the Bowling For Columbine dvd I purchased on ebay will make better use for skeet shooting.

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Marketing Guns Through Fear
I recently re-watched this important film that so frightened the perception managers of the gun industry. This film exposed the mind-set that has created huge revenue streams for gun sales people. The mind-set is fear. The same mentality that equates safety with being well-armed is the same mentality that accepts ever larger weapons budgets for the country. The military industrial complex that we should fear (the one that Eisenhower warned us about [[ASIN:B000FBH3W2 Why We Fight]]) is confiscating more of our tax dollars each year. <
>As "Bowling for Columbine" points out, Columbine High School is located in the same district with a huge Lockheed Martin weapons plant. It's not hard to imagine where the Columbine killers may have picked up the idea that violence is the way to solve problems. <
>It's also important to note that this Lockheed Martin plant is located in the district represented by the demagogue, Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has made a living lashing out at Muslims (threatening to bomb Mecca), and lashing out at immigrants (threatening to round them all up and put them in detention centers). I don't think he believes his rhetoric, but he does understand that his bigotry serves the business interests of Lockheed, which will make a ton of money off of the hi-tech wall being contructed along the southern border, in addition to making piles of money with new weapons systems that we terrorize the world with. <
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>For more information on the connection between gun sales, fear, and the idolatry of violence among sectors of the US population, I'd recommend [[ASIN:1595580875 Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy]].

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Important movie
I almost think this might be my favorite of the crucially important Moore documentaries. I just love how he exposes Charlton Heston for the douche bag he clearly is. Gotta love it when one gets what one deserves! Lots of great points in this movie, dispersed amongst the roller coaster ride of tragedy and humor that hallmark Moore's masterpieces.....