Just watched Bowling For Columbine...

[fiyah]

The film is out in the UK

http://www.playserver1.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=113302


*edit* now the link is correct

 

[Zer0.MediA]

What I liked about it is it isn't an anti-gun movie, don't let anybody tell you different. It pointed out the fact that canada has millions of gun owners as well and they only have like 100 gun related murders a year in the whole country. It pretty much is an anti-media film, showing how all the other countries are pretty much just like US as far as what people are exposed to, but our media over here all they talk about is killings and shit to make people all scared and shit...

That doesn't make sense. If our media is trying to "scare" us, then why is our murder rate so high as compared to other countries.

The answer? It's too hard for a normal citizen to get a gun around here without a 7 year backround check. The criminals purchase them illegally and aren't afraid to produce them because they know they're the only one's who have them. There's a state (I think Colorado) where there are right to carry laws (meaning an average citizen can carry concealed weapons with the proper permits legally) and they have the lowest rate of gun related crime in the country per capita.

I used to like that Micheal Moore cat, but nowadays he has turned into such a mushbrained pussy ass nonsense spewing fruitcake, I can't take him seriously at all.

This movie is not a documentary, it simply LOOKS like one. Few people are aware of the "creative editing" in the film which purposefully and deceptively presents quotes out of context, and mixes and matches quotes from different speeches together in an attempt to fuel resentment towards the NRA.

Now I am not a gun enthusiast, or an NRA supporter, but I am even less of a supporter of a intentionally deceptive "documentary" which uses cheap tactics such as that to make its' point. The reason they had to edit the movie like that is because on their own and in their proper context, the quotes would not stir emotions and would be largely useless and inconsequential.

So true. And if Micheal Moore was staring down the barrel of a gun, I bet he'd wish he had one to pull first.