Bowling for Columbine
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But when the sun sets
on Denver tonight,

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and forever more, let it
always set on we the people,

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secure in our land of the free
and home of the brave.

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I, for one, plan to do my part.
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Thank you.
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[ cheering and clapping ]
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- Or like when they had
their convention in Colorado,

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a week, whatever,
the month after Columbine,

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that was just stupid.
Just don't do that.

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Of course you have "the right
to," but what are you doing?

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Upsetting a whole city full of
people, why would you do that?

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- This is Matt Stone.
He grew up in Littleton

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and has fond memories
of Columbine.

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- Yeah, Columbine,
it's just a crappy school

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in the middle of a bunch
of crappy houses.

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- Matt and his friend
Trey Parker

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found a way to take out
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their anger of being different
in Littleton

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and turn it not into carnage,
but into a cartoon.

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"Just another Sunday morning
In my quiet...

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"Mountain town"
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"You can see your breath
Hanging in the air

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"You see homeless people
But you just don't care

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"It's a sea of smiles
In which we'd be glad to drown

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"It's Sunday morning
In our quiet little

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"White-bread redneck
mountain town"

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- Columbine is a normal
high school--

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- Yeah.
- ...in a normal suburb--

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- Yeah.
- ...you know, basically.

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- Yeah. Painfully, painfully,
painfully normal.

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Just absolutely, painfully,
horribly average.

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Littleton in general is...
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I remember being in sixth grade
and I...

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had to take the math test
to get into Honors Math

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in the seventh grade.
And they're, like,

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"Don't screw this up.
Because if you screw this up,

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you won't get into Honors Math
in seventh grade.

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And if you don't get in
in seventh grade,

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you won't in eighth grade,
then not in ninth grade.

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And 10th and 11th grade
and you'll just die poor

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and lonely."
And that's it, you know?

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You believe, in high school -
and a lot of it is kids,


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