Bowling for Columbine
By: Mikki • Essay • 258 Words • May 10, 2010 • 1,243 Views
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine
" Bowling for Columbine " is a documentry produced and directed by Michael Moore. Columbine happened in 1999 at the state of Michigan. Reasoning for a documentry with a theme " Bowling for columbine" is to try and show the media why things like the shooting at Columbine happen. In the documentry there are a lot of issues explored, such as the use of guns, and weapons in all countries. Moore learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Many Americans would