Bowling For Columbine
Nov. 26th, 2002 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleI saw this film last Friday at the Academy of Music. It is truly excellent. I urge everyone reading this to see it. It's a very personal and passionate meditation upon gun murders here in the USA. It is not gory or graphic in its violence, but it can be very upsetting, as it includes footage of the 9/11 attack (the first time I have seen it in a while and had it bother me), security videos of the Columbine massacre, and a 911 tape of a teacher watching a little girl die.
Of course, all these things are REAL, and I think Mr. Moore is right to think that we, as a society, don't pay enough attention to the violence all around us. See this film, and even if you don't agree with it at all, I think you will agree that it is very important to see, experience, and reflect upon this film.
I'd especially like to hear from someone who disagreed with Mr. Moore. I'd also like someone to do what I don't think Charlton Heston did: offer a cogent explanation for why the routine tragedies that come with more than 11,000 gun deaths in this country every year is a price worth paying for the benefits of widespread gun ownership and the strenuous defense of the right to bear arms. I think that too often people who push for gun rights ignore the human cost, but I'd like to hear someone who doesn't explain why it's necessary. I believe that there might be such an explanation. I just can't imagine one that I agree with.
Of course, all these things are REAL, and I think Mr. Moore is right to think that we, as a society, don't pay enough attention to the violence all around us. See this film, and even if you don't agree with it at all, I think you will agree that it is very important to see, experience, and reflect upon this film.
I'd especially like to hear from someone who disagreed with Mr. Moore. I'd also like someone to do what I don't think Charlton Heston did: offer a cogent explanation for why the routine tragedies that come with more than 11,000 gun deaths in this country every year is a price worth paying for the benefits of widespread gun ownership and the strenuous defense of the right to bear arms. I think that too often people who push for gun rights ignore the human cost, but I'd like to hear someone who doesn't explain why it's necessary. I believe that there might be such an explanation. I just can't imagine one that I agree with.
