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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 11/11/2004 10:49 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 11/10/2004 10:40 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"jak163" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:16:59 GMT, "Michael McKelvy"
wrote:

"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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So you didn't get it either. I guess it would be a waste for you to
watch
the
movie. You wouldn't get it with all your baggage. But answer this
question
just
to test your understanding of this movie. Does Michael Moore claim
that
gun
ownership in the U.S. is a cause for the high levels of violence in
the
U.S.?

Not overtly, but if that is not his point what is the point of Bowling
for
Columbine?

Right, you don't even know what the point of the movie was. Very
rigorous.

My brother in law thinks it's about living in a gun crazy society.

He's wrong.

Well, he is a Liberal, but I thought that would give him a leg up on it.

Not really.

I think it's about a crazy, lying, fat *******'s distorted view of the
country he hates.

You're wrong.

Since even a bonafide Liberal didn't get it, how letting me in on it, I
promise I straighten him out also.

It's kind of hard to explain your misunderstandings of a movie you didn't see.
Michael Moore points to an incontravertable fact. We live in a very violent
society. He looks at several popular simple explinations including the
popularity of gun ownership in the U.S.He also looks at music and video games
as an influence. He pretty much debunks each of these simple explinations by
citing other societies that live with the same individual conditions but do not
suffer from the massive amounts of violence. He does suggest that our county's
mentality of conquest as a means of getting what we want might be a possible
explination. He doesn't offer it as a fact though.