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Thread #63137 Message #1025509
Posted By: GUEST,pdc
27-Sep-03 - 01:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Subject: RE: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
I agree that Moore's film warrants critical study. On the other hand, Columbine did happen. The NRA is real, and is also the strongest lobby group in America. School shootings continue to occur. Charlton Heston did promote a gun culture. The statistics on murder rates in various countries were real. Violence in the US is a fact of life.
Those statements alone tend to make any criticism of Moore's film seem somewhat picayune. If he presented the facts with a little too much artistic license, it doesn't matter as much as that the facts themselves exist. It's a terrible shame that conditions in the US were such that they presented a topic for him to film.