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Firstly, after just finishing watching "Bowling from Columbine" I would like to let me my dad know that I think his favorite Charlton Heston, the guy who played Moses, has turned into a fucking moron, and I would cast Mark Wahlberg anytime if I had to choose between the two to play a human trapped in a crazy violent world of apes with the knowledge to use primitive weapons.

See this flash intro from this Academy Award winning documentary and you will know what I'm talking about here. All my childhood perceptions about American crime rate being pushed up by the urban areas seem to be shattering right now all around the fact that suburbia is more gun-crazy here than anywhere else. I mean what the fuck? Canada with 7 million guns for it's 10 million families has a murder by gun rate of 165 in a year, but we here in America are killing more than 11,000 with our "right to guns".

Before today, Michael Moore seemed a hateful guy who's whole purpose was to hate the conservations and President Bush through his books, none of which I have read. Well, that might be true, but still I think he raises some very interesting points in this movie. I mean I totally agree with his observation that although the crime rate has been going down, the media coverage of crime and murder has been going up by 600%. The fucking media makes money scaring the shit out of people, making them feel like they are the most insecure and vunerable people in the world. But for God's sake, how can that be? This is the United States.

Do I wanna go live in Canada instead after watching this documentary? Yeah, perhaps, may be because I too want to live a life where I'm not scared of my Polish crack smoking neighbors and have to keep two locks on my door all the time, may be just the Canadians I don't want to lock my doors and myself in a one bedroom apartment. But what I mostly would like is to see this country get rid of all this fear, the absense of a national health plan and no future occurances as to what happened in Littleton, Colorado, the town of the Columbine Highschool. I also have a better feeling towards how the public easily buys the whole African American bad guy thing, not that this makes me dislike hiphop any less than before.

I think the whole point of NRA is to let everyone have a license to kill, and to let others kill from their guns, like the two kids from Littleton who killed 12 of their classmates, and one teacher. May be those chanting for their right to own a gun while attending an NRA rally would be of better use if thrown into the mountains of Afghanistan to fight the friggin' Taleban.

Lastly, I would just wish that America would adapt to a world without freely available guns, where corporates and media control how people live, like scaring them everyday with things like how one in five of them suffer from mental disorders and such.

This is a great nation, make it even better... and Kmart's decision to stop carrying guns and ammunition is a great start.

Posted in Movies Etc. ; Worthless on October 30, 2003 1:52 AM
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hmm...who is Michael Moore btw?

Posted by: amber at November 4, 2003 10:31 PM

The problem is, Michael Moore has been shown to have fictionalized much of his info and used other dishonest tactics in that, and other, movies he's done. So bad that some documentary film makers have signed a petition to have his Academy Award revoked, because his film doens't qualify for what a documentary is supposed to be.

As a gun owner, I can assure you I've never shot anyone, and have no intention of doing so, and I'm not one of those drooling morons that Michael Moore would make me out to be. Plus, he made Charlston Heston look evil and crazy, when Heston is really neither.

Just so you know, there is more than one side to these things. ;-)

Posted by: Dean Esmay at November 26, 2003 12:17 AM

I see where you're heading, but then I don't. You say Canada has a murder by gun rate of 165, with it's 7 million guns for 10 million families, and we have 11,000 something. Then you say that we should pretty much adapt to the idea of not having guns available freely. Wait a minute, I'm confused? Are you for or against guns, because the numbers you presented earlier seem to suggest that "it's not the guns, but its us." If Canada has that many guns, and a gun homicide rate of only 165, I think they're doing damn good with it: I live in a metropolitan city a few thousand times smaller than Canada, and we have about half that gun homicide rate. I don't think it's because we have more guns, because from what you say above, it seems that the guns are pretty well distributed up there as well. Seems to me that the Canadians know how and when to use their weapons: we don't. while I don't agree with the NRA, and I feel that Charlton Heston is a loon, your argument is the very embodiment of the slogan "guns don't kill people, people kill people."

Posted by: Slackx86 at February 20, 2004 12:47 PM

RIP Dimebag, shot 5 times in the head by a person.


Fuck your guns.

Posted by: at December 10, 2004 12:52 AM
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