Bowling For Columbine

Thesis: The U.S.A. is more violent than most other countries.

NRA:

The president of the NRA avoids the consequences of letting people own guns. 

Example: Michael Moore confronts Charleton Heston about the little girl who had been shot and he claimed to know nothing about it. Michael asked him to apologise to the people of that town for holding a gun rally just after the incident and he got up and walked away. Michael followed him around his home and Charleton just kept walking. The whole time Charleton was being interviewed he avoided questions about how violent America is due to the availability of guns. 

American news:

News in American is all about death and murder, and portrays fear into Americans.

Example: In the documentary Michael Moore compares American news to Canadian news. They show some clips of American news, and it is all about death, murder, and violence. They then show some clips of Canadian news, and it talks about simple things we Canadians like to know, and it’s not all about death. Michael Moore talks to an American news reporter and asked him, if he had two choices: a baby that just drowned, or a man with a gun, which would he pick. The news reporter said “Always the man with the gun; Always.” Just that little interview proves how the American news likes to portray fear into their people.  

American history:

The south park clip shows us the history between America, and guns and violence.

Example: Throughout the whole “A Brief History of America” clip, the narrator says how scared the Americans were.  The narrator, a little cartoon bullet, starts by telling us about the pilgrims, how they left for the new world so that they would not be scared anymore, and how they killed all the Indians there, because the Indians frightened them. They then killed lots of British soldiers so that they could be free and passed the amendment that all men had the right to own a gun. The narrator then moves on to the point of slavery, because the Americans were scared of work. The slaves started uprising and soon became free. The Americans were still scared and paranoid, so the created the KKK and the NRA. Eventually they got so “scared” that they created suburbs where they could be “safe”. This little clip shows us just how paranoid and violent the U.S.A. is.