Bowling for Columbine
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1:05:02
How can that be possible?
It doesn't make any sense.

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But it makes perfect sense
when you see what we're hearing

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from politicians and seeing
in the news media.

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- So we're, uh, we're right here
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on the corner of Florence
and Normandie.

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It's kind of Ground Zero
for the L.A. riots.

1:05:18
- Right.
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- You know, if a couple
of white guys

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would go down and walk around
South Central,

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they're gonna get killed.
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Which I can tell you
is a common perception.

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The odds that something's
going to happen to us

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are really, really slight.
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Minuscule.
- Right. Okay.

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- But you know,
if you look up there,

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you get a different symbol
of the Hollywood sign.

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It means something
very different

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than the corner
of Florence and Normandie.

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For most Americans
and most of the world,

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it means glamour and Hollywood,
except that we can't see it.

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- I can't see the Hollywood sign.
Where is it?

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- Right. You can't see it because
of something that's probably...

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much more dangerous for us
right now,

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which is the stuff
we're breathing.

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- The pollution that's blocking
the Hollywood sign,

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we're breathing this.
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That's far more dangerous than
all the other stuff the media's

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telling us to be afraid of.
- Right.

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- As we left the corner
of Florence and Normandie,

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I noticed that a number
of helicopters

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had appeared in the sky.
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Within seconds, the news media
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started to arrive.
- So what's the story here?

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- I'm waiting.
I thought you would know.

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- No, I don't know anything.
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- The Sergeant just told me
there's a guy with a gun.

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But they're not sure.
That's all they told me.

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Since there's no action,
I'm not getting my camera down.

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- I just happened to see the
chopper, going to another story.

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- What story are you going to?
- It's a near-drowning.

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- It's a drowning?
- A near-drowning.

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- How about a story
about how you can't see

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the Hollywood Hills
because of the pollution?

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Could you maybe do a story
on that tonight?

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- Pollution, that's rather good.
I find that good.

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You can't see it. You can't see
anything around here.

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- If you have to choose
between a guy with a gun

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and a near-drowning of a baby -
you could only be one place--

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- I go with the gun.
- You go with the gun, always.

1:06:57
Is it all over, here?
It's all over? All over?

1:06:59
- Not yet, not yet.
- Looks like it.


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