Bowling For Columbine Analysis Michael Moore's documentary, "Bowling For Columbine," is a very insightful film of the American aspect on firearms. Moore's main idea for the film is gun control in America and uses examples such as the Columbine shooting and the shooting that took place in Flint, Michigan when a little girl was shot and killed by her classmate. He was trying to spread the word about how lenient we are as Americans on the gun control policy. Moore proved his point about our leniency when he walked into North Country Bank & Trust and opened an account and got a free gun just for doing so. America is practically handing out guns to anyone.
Bowling for Columbine The title of the documentary, Bowling for Columbine, pays homage to the events of April 20, 1999, where in Littleton, Colorado Erick Harris and Dylan Kiebold when bowling at 6:00AM before going on a shooting spree at Columbine High School. They killed a teacher, twelve students, and injured countless others both physically and mentally. The world gasped, confused as to how and why such an event could occur. Having really little clue what to expect in turning on Bowling for Columbine, I found the vignettes a bit overwhelming and the flood of statistics shocking. I often found my self-pondering one fact or another forgetting that the movie was still on!
A documentary often serves to position the viewer to consider the perspective that it presents. Michael Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine (what a wonderful world) is about a shooting massacre that assured at columbine high school. Moores uses the incident as to ask questions as to why america is such a a violent nation, full of fear that people are driven to the extent of having to posses a weapon so as to feel safer. Moore compares America to there neighboring country canada frequently, using examples such as the similar gun laws that they have and how they not feel the need to own a gun to feel safe. Moore also interviews a variety of people like Charlton Heston the former president of the national rifle association (NRA) and celebrity icons and other people off the streets.
2013: 292). The three student groups that represented the striking students pursued legal action, to challenge Quebec’s Bill 78 that was passed, in hopes that it will prove to be unconstitutional (The Ottawa Citizen, 2012: A.2. These Interest groups shared a common goal of influencing the government to withdraw their proposal of increasing tuition in Quebec. ). The Quebec Student Protests are directly related to this concept because, as
Since 2008 Arizona cut 65 million from budget for mental health services. Had they not, would Jared Loughner, the Tucson shooter, been able to receive mental health assistance and listed on the FBI data base as a potential threat to society? In 2009 Emily Friedman of ABC news reported that Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech Shooter, had seen or talked to the VT school counselor numerous times, been admitted into a physic ward in 2005. He was not listed on any data base to prevent him from purchasing guns in Wisconsin and in Virginia at a local pawn shop. These guns were used in the worse school massacres in the United States
He makes a point to inform viewers that the U.N. nation’s gun-grab agreement is unconstitutional, politically suicidal for those who support it, and down-right-idiotic (2012). He really does have a variety of personal clips of political representatives using them as media propaganda to inform the viewers the pros and cons on gun control. He states that when guns were banned in Great Britain, murders increased by 41%. In New Orleans during the hurricane, the crime rate increased from people entering houses. They showed a picture of a map of a location where someone’s daughter would be in the event an emergency broke out.
Hatred of other people because of race or status and the belief that “Someone” is holding them back is truly what is at the heart of killing and that guns are just the tool of choice. I began with the school shootings because they are fresh, raw and are being used at the core of most gun arguments. “Save the Children” is about as popular as “Remember the Alamo” was more than 175 years ago. Children today need to be taught about the history of America the way that we were so they can be more
Reflection Paper 2: Gun Control As a country we have witnessed a great amount of tragedy. Sandy Hook, Columbine, and Virginia Tech all have one thing in common: young, innocent students killed by gunshot wounds. Some would say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” while others disagree. There are two large interest groups that have drastically different views on the growing issue of control. Those two groups are the Brady Campaign and the NRA.
In the past few years, the industry has mounted an effective, organized campaign against the legalized importation of drugs from Canada. "America's big drug companies are intensifying their lobbying efforts to change the Canadian health-care system and eliminate subsidized prescription drug prices enjoyed by Canadians," CanWest News Service reported on June 9, 2003. A prescription drug industry spokesman in Washington confirmed to CanWest News Service that information contained in confidential industry documents is accurate, and that $1 million U.S. is being added to the already heavily funded drug lobby against the Canadian system. PhRMA was the leading drug industry trade group behind the increased lobbying and public relations campaign in Canada. PhRMA was also independently spending $450,000 to target the booming Canadian internet pharmacy industry, which has been providing Americans with prescription drugs at lower prices than in the United
They think the laws and licensing are loose. In 2006, third two states are required the background information checks for purchases firearm (Moorhouse 105). In October 1997, factories of gun in the U.S. accept to install a trigger locks on handguns. It also had a vote about training for all gun users in November, but it failed (Jost 1105). Although I am a supporter of gun control, I think the result of this vote was totally correct because it involved a huge number of the gun users in the United States, and who should pay the money for that training if the