Friday, January 30, 2015

Bowling for Columbine

Our culture has been littered with gun violence. You hear about it almost every day--to the point where it's almost normal. I can still remember the days of the Sandy Hook Shootings and the Aurora Movie Theater Shootings. These types of events instill fear into the people and even produce more gun-lovers, ironically. Michael Moore satirically engaged in his own adventure to get to the bottom of this. It was neat how he made some of these people look like fools, yet they had no idea.
Michael Moore is storied for these types of documentaries and his fights against our wars overseas. He visited many places to see what their gun policies were compared to Americas. Interestingly enough, Canada had very similar gun policies to America. Guns were easily accessible, yet their gun deaths per year were less than 100. America's was over 11,000. Something must have been wrong with American society.
There is really no facts about why this is happening. Everybody watches the same movies, plays the same video games, and has the same amount of guns as us. There must be something that's going on in our society, a sense of instilled fear, that is driving unbelievable amounts of gun deaths up.