Bowling For Columbine Shootings
11,127 is the number of Americans killed in the United States last year with a gun. 381 is the number of Germans killed with a gun, which is the closest statistic country to the U.S. Why is there so much gun violence in the U.S? What is so different in the U.S. that gun crime is so prevalent? What can we do to change it? All questions Bowling for Columbine poses in the film documentary by Michael Moore. Like the documentary, there is not one simple answer and there are no easy solutions. Viewing this film for the first time, I learned how appalling gun violence is in the United States. I had no idea how simple it was to purchase a gun. I also learned about how the U.S. trained Osama Bin Laden and all the weapons that we gave to other countries that we are not fighting against. I also learned about reasons why people think the Columbine shootings occurred. The film presents some theories about gun violence but does not give us an answer. In my opinion, I feel the film was meant to
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I think that this only brings about more racial tension in America. The media sells fear and every day we are being sold products based on that. If we do not wear their make-up we will not look good and in turn will be less successful, this is just one example among many that the media uses to instill fear in us. The fear of failure in the U.S. is greater than in many other countries. If you have people that are under enormous amounts of pressure to succeed, causing them stress, it will drive them with fear; in return we put a gun in their hand. In the end bad things are going to happen. The fact that it is so easy to purchase a gun in the U.S. is scary to me and I think that something should be done about it. Guns should not be easy to get and I feel that the U.S. needs to restrict the purchasing of
I think that this only brings about more racial tension in America. The media sells fear and every day we are being sold products based on that. If we do not wear their make-up we will not look good and in turn will be less successful, this is just one example among many that the media uses to instill fear in us. The fear of failure in the U.S. is greater than in many other countries. If you have people that are under enormous amounts of pressure to succeed, causing them stress, it will drive them with fear; in return we put a gun in their hand. In the end bad things are going to happen. The fact that it is so easy to purchase a gun in the U.S. is scary to me and I think that something should be done about it. Guns should not be easy to get and I feel that the U.S. needs to restrict the purchasing of