Bowling for Columbine

[Bwian]

Actually one of the important points that come across is that Canada has the same levels of gun ownership, yet virtually no gun crime (less than most european countries).

Whats not really gone into is why that should be. He attempts to get some answer to that question out of Heston, but then just drops the point entirely and ends the film. Big mistake in my mind as that would have made it really worthwhile.

Gun ownership in Canada on the same level as the US? Are you sure?

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Yeah, right... I must be lucky then, because all the Americans I deal with on a regular basis seem to be fairly normal human beings (some, I suspect, a lot more normal than MYOB). Mind you, I haven't met all 300 million of them yet.

I worked with a fair few septics and on the whole they are friendly polite people. Dig a little though and most have some bizarre opinions.
I used to have to phone an IT guy in the states regularly and got on well with him. He loved Nascar and his kids and BBC America (he liked to quote Blackadder at me). He was a laid back peacable guy, yet he sincerely thought that America should bomb France for disagreeing with the US Iraqi policy.
I thought he was joking, but no he really meant it. At that company we also got a global e-mail from one of the VP's praising Bush being voted into the White House, cos we now had a God fearing Christian to stand up to the heathens, blasphemers and Democrats.

 

[itszamora]

Michael Moore does make some valid points, but he never makes any kind of attempt to balance an argument - which would work in his favour as they would appear much better constructed and thought out and generally more acceptable.

One example that really annoyed me was a chapter entitled 'Germany Still Hasn't Paid For its Sins - and I Intend To Collect'.

From a supposed liberal even the title sounds, well frankly racist, and the only source of evidence he uses is a historian called Daniel Goldhagen who is Jewish and basically argues that all the Germans willingly supported the Holocaust. (Even if they did, its not really fair to blame people who weren't alive at the time!)

I would be interested to hear what our resident historians have to say about Goldhagen, I doubt it will be positive somehow...