A clear and accurate picture of the state of affairs in USA is
depicted in the documentary Bowling for Columbine'. The Director and
Writer of the film Michael Moore, conveys the feeling of almost all
Americans of today, which is this: why are Americans so very fond of guns'
Why are Americans so very fond of shooting at one another at the slightest
provocation' Why are leaders advocating the use of handguns' Why are so
many people killing each other; the rate of such killings being much more
than the average ratio of any other developed country' For example, Canada
has a similar ratio of guns per citizen, but a mere tenth of deaths due to
random shootings. The director makes Americans ponder these issues and
plenty more such as: why do Americans need the protection of guns' Can't
American citizens live without the security blanket offered by the presence
of a gun' Why does news on the television aim at focusing on violent crimes
and bleeding deaths' Why does the news base its emphasis on these scenes
even if the rate of crime is at a decline- the TV news coverage of violence
is up by 600%' (Bowling for Columbine)
The scene of massacre is the Columbine High School where there is a
shoot out, and students are dead or injured. The Director Michael Moore,
who plays a sharp shooting teacher in the film, returns many times to the
Columbine High School to show the viewers horrifying scenes of the
massacre. Two students are seriously injured and lie at the scene of
carnage completely shocked and bewildered. The Director who is present at
the scene makes a startling comment that all the bullets that were used in
he shoot out at the School had actually been sold to the teenaged students
at the rate of a mere 17 cents per bullet! The place that had sold these
bullets was Kmart and this shop...