Bowling for Columbine
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- Well, no, they're just like us.
They have the occasional person

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that snaps and kills
a lot of people.

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How about a British soccer riot?
Those aren't Quakers there,

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- Every time that
I bring up comparisons

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with other free-world countries,
what I hear is:

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"Oh, our culture is so
different. We're so different."

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And as you said, they have
violent video games,

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they have violent movies,
they have alienated youth,

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they - like us - don't have
prayer in schools.

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What is so radically different?
What is it about us?

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- What is it?
- What is it?

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- What is it?
- What is it?

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I don't know.
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- Now, it's time for...
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Hi, boys and girls.
Ready to get started?

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Once upon a time, there were
these people in Europe

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called pilgrims and they were
afraid of being persecuted.

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So they all got in a boat
and sailed to the New World

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where they wouldn't have
to be scared ever again.

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- Oh, I'm so relaxed.
- I feel so much safer.

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- But as soon as they arrived,
they were greeted by savages.

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They got scared all over again.
- Injuns!

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- So they killed them all.
Now, you'd think

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wiping out a race of people
would calm them down, but no.

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Instead, they started getting
frightened of each other.

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[ both ]: Witch!
- So they burned witches.

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In 1775,
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they started killing the
British, so they could be free.

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And it worked.
But they still didn't feel safe.

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So they passed a 2nd amendment,
which said every white man

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could keep his gun.
- I loves my gun, loves my gun.

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- This brings us to
the genius idea of slavery.

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You see, boys and girls,
the white people back then

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were also afraid of doing any
work. So they went to Africa,

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kidnapped thousands of black
people, brought them to America,

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and forced them to work
very hard for no money.

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And I don't mean no money like:
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"I work at Wal-Mart
and make no money."

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I mean zero dollars.
Nothing, nada, zip.

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Doing it that way made the USA
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the richest country
in the world.

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So did having all that money
and free help

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calm the white people down? No
way. They got even more afraid.

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That's because after
200 years of slavery,

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the black people now outnumbered
the white people in many parts

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of the South. Well, you can
pretty much what came next.


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