Tuesday November 26 2002 at 13:25 GMT
 | Last Thursday I saw Bowling for Columbine, a documentary-style film by Michael Moore covering what had happened at Columbine, but also the USA's fascination with firearms. Sometimes I find Michael Moore overpowering, but he has really made a great job of this and I would highly recommend seeing it. He made a very interesting comparison between the USA and Canada. Apparently they have a similar ratio of guns to households (Canada has seven million guns and 10 million households, if my memory serves me right) yet in terms of deaths each year by firearms, it is less than 1% of the US total (11000 vs 100 *ish*). He ran though the arguments given on a regular basis for why US citizens use their firearms so often, and really none of the arguments stand up - Japan creates violent video games and Europe has a bloody history. Anyway, get to the cinema and see it - well worth the time. |
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