Bowling for Columbine
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is that whether you're
a psychotic killer

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or running for president
of the United States,

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the one thing you can
always count on

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is white America's fear
of the black man.

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- We've heard the stories
on the news and in the papers

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and they have killed people.
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Killer bees, also known
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as "Africanized" bees.
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- I'm scared. I'm really worried.
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- Rose Shipley never expected a
nest of Africanized killer bees

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to shack up across the street
from her.

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- But I'm terribly allergic
to them and so are my grandkids.

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- They're originally from
southern and eastern Africa.

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Dr. Warrick Care brought some
to Brazil in 1956

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and tried to mate them
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with the European bee,
the kind that we're used to.

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But they got loose and moved
to the southern United States.

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- The main difference between
a traditional honey bee

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and an Africanized bee is
the bee's aggressiveness.

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If I was to do this
to an Africanized bee's hive,

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I could have several hundred
stings in a matter of minutes.

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- Danny Self raises the kinder,
gentler European bees,

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and he's done the research.
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- The only way that you can tell
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the two of them, is doing
measurements on the body parts.

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- Quite frankly,
the black community has become

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entertainment for the rest
of the community.

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- Meaning what?
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Arthur Busch
County Prosecutor - Flint, Michigan

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- The entertainment being
that the crime of the day -

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you know, "If it bleeds,
it leads" -

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gets to be the front story and
then that becomes the perception

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and the image of
an entire people.

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Which couldn't be further
from the truth, in my opinion.

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In fact, you'll find, I think,
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most African-Americans are quite
adverse to gun possession.

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In suburbia, I think,
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there's some notion that there's
going to be an invading horde,

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come from either the city
or from someplace unknown,

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to savage their suburban
community.

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To me, not only is it bizarre,
but it's totally, uh...

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unfounded.
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And these pistols,
curiously enough,


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