Bowling for Columbine

[T_SP]

Haven't seen it in ages, just amazing it really is. Question though:

Is Canada really like that?
Isn't Charlton Heston such a bastard!! I'd like to rip his intestines out and strangle him with them!!

Is there an anti NRA group?

What did others think of the film?

[EneME]

What did others think of the film?
Well, i haven't seen F9/11 as of yet, but I seriously doubt I'll like it as much as BFC. I really didn't think it was going to be as deep as it went, and of course the "wonderful world" part really tore me apart b/c El Sal. was mentioned. So, it made me laugh, cry, and think....it was a whole lot more personal than F9/11 will be for me. Plus, I had a good experience seeing it when it first came out (before the hoopla) in a small independent theatre in Berkeley with all these other lefties, so we kinda bonded during and afterwards. There were lots of applause during the movie and others crying...very good communal feeling..


Is Canada really like that?
From my own experience it is....I've only visited Vancouver a lot, and it wasn't uncommon to leave doors unlocked all the time and stuff like that. Although, I have to admit, there is ALOT of car theft. My ex had his stereo stolen quite a few times, and when I was there once, we went into a store for about 10 minutes and when we came back to the car, all of the CD's were gone. Kinda funny to stick your hand where about 20 CD's were stacked up and feel nothing but air...Fast fuckers..


Is there an anti NRA group?
I have nooo idea...all I know is that those NRA mother fuckers are EVERYWHERE...

[Eastside Revolt]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2004, 03:58 PM
Haven't seen it in ages, just amazing it really is. Question though:

Is Canada really like that?

What did others think of the film?
As for Canada, they said that they were showing a poor area, but they flashed like two seconds strait down the middle of a road, not really showing the housing. If that was Scarborough (an area in greater Torornto) they were showing, its true our ghettoes are fairly clean but that's because of social programs, not because people there give a shit enough not to litter. It's also very telling that they didn't show any night footage, where you would very likely see young Jamaican kids reaching down their pants everytime a car drives by.

In Vancouver way out in the suburbs, people don't lock their doors while at home. But you're really only at risk of a home invasion if you're involved in gang activity. Inner Vancouver is very different, not only do people lock their doors, but they normally buy new locks when they move into a place, because previous locks have been kicked in.

Not that I'm some gun nut, but relly what this film is gonna do, is take guns out of the hands of the poor, that's it. The NRA and the KKK are still gonna go on strong, because the general American public refuses to believe that they are anything but "#1" and "land of the free". This romantasism about Canada is endearing to Canadians, but misreprestnted.

[cormacobear]

I'm sure most people in our major cities lock there doors even while they're home. But in most parts of the country people don't. At least half the people I know where I grew up didn't lock their doors when they weren't home. that was 5 or ten years ago and only a city of 50,000. But I'm sure every third house had a rifle in it, it's southern Alberta after all. I've only met two people who I know had handguns and weren't cops. And you can't buy guns at our department stores that's as creepy as selling beer at gas stations.

[nezvanova]

man, i dunno about you guys, but i rarely leave my doors unlocked, and i live in the middle of nowhere! i'm parinoid though....very parinoid.

[timbaly]

One thing I didn't like about the film was the beginning segment where they listed how many people die from gunshots per country. The documnetary makes the US look a lot worse than it is because they compare to countries that have smaller populations and rather than comparing the deahts per a set amount of people they do it per country making the US look really horrible in comparison to the European nations mentioned. Even thought the US does have more gun deaths per capita than these places it would have been much more fair to show per capita statistics than use this type of propaganda.