Bowling for Columbine
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That's a good question. Why
was that building "blowed up"?

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And who blew it up?
- But if someone did it,

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it would be wrong.
- Yeah.

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- It is wrong to take the lives
of those people.

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- Yeah.
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I use the pen. 'Cause the pen
is mightier than the sword.

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But you always must keep a sword
handy, for when the pen fails.

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I sleep with a .44 Magnum
under my pillow.

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- Come on...
That's what everyone says.

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Is that true?
- It's true.

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- If we were to go--
- The whole world knows that.

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- ...look under your pillow right
now, would we see a .44 Magnum?

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- Yeah.
- Honestly?

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Would you take us and show us?
Right now?

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He took me into his bedroom,
but told the cameraman

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to stay out. Sure enough,
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there was a .44 Magnum
under his pillow.

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There it is. Okay.
Is it loaded?

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- Aye-yay-yay.
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- Okay. I believe you.
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NICHOLS HAS COCKED THE GUN
AND PUT IT TO HIS TEMPLE.

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[ laughing ]
Don't do that!

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You put the gun to your head.
- I know!

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- Jeez!
- I'm not gonna get hurt!

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- This is loaded.
- It's loaded, it's safe.

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You've got to pull the trigger,
pull the hammer and shoot it.

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- Mm, put the hammer back.
- No one has a right to tell me

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that I can't have it.
That is protected

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in our constitution.
- Where's it say a handgun

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is protected?
- No, gun. We should...

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Every citizen--
- It doesn't say "gun"!

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It says "arms."
- Arms. What is arms?

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- Could be a nuclear weapon.
- It's not these-- That's right,

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it could be a nuclear weapon!
- You think you should have

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the right to have weapons-grade
plutonium here on the farm?

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- We should be able
to have anything--

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- Should you have
weapons-grade plutonium?

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- I don't want it.
- But should you have the right

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to have it if you did want it?
- That should be restricted.

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- Ah! Ah, so you do believe
in some restrictions.

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- Well, there's wackos out there.
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"Happiness is a warm gun
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"Bang bang shoot shoot"
[ TV news ]: The town of Virgin,

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Utah, has passed a law requiring
all residents to own guns.


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