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Originally posted by Strange Famous
people may criticise Moore, but in fact, when we come down to it, that is the number of people killed by gunshot in the US in a year, no one denies that... Moore may have misrepresented the figure, but it remains factually true.
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You seem to be completely missing the point of Micheal Moores "Bowling for Columbine" movie. Now my feelings about Micheal Moore are summed up very well by The_Dunedan's earlier post, but his movie didnt really have the anti-gun message people seem to think it does. Again, his statistics are very questionable but did you completely miss the part of the movie where he goes on to demonstrate that Canada has a higher percentage of firearms in the population than the US, while having a much lower percentage of deaths caused by firearms? I mean there was probably a full 20-30 minutes of that movie demonstrating that firearms are not the reason for violent crime.
That was the point of the movie. He poses the question the question, "Why do we continue to kill each other?". He demonstrates that a firearm is a tool that can be mis-used to kill people but at the same time he proves that more firearms do not equal more violence. He allows you to draw your own conclusions as to why there is more violent crime in the US, even though the population as a whole is less armed than Canada. He does hint at the fact that it might have something to do with a fear driven culture in America (ie Evening news programs, corperate marketing that plays on peoples insecurites etc) and the level of tension it causes.