Bowling for Columbine
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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.

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Is it all over, here?
It's all over? All over?

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- Not yet, not yet.
- Looks like it.

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- Just wait for these sergeants
down here to come down,

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'cause they got all the details.
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- Okay. Hey, I was
just wondering -

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I just got here to L.A. today -
I can't see the Hollywood sign,

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down on the hills there,
down Normandie.

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You can't see the sign
'cause of the pollution.

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- Right.
- Is there anybody you can arrest

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for polluting up the air?
- Absolutely not.

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- Nobody?
- No.

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- Why is that?
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Why is that, Sergeant?
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- He's fighting!
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- For over a decade,
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there has been one show
on American television

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that has consistently brought
black and white people together

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in an effort to reduce
our fears

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and celebrate our diversity.
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That show is Cops.
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I went to see a former
producer of "Cops"

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and executive producer
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of World's Wildest
Police Videos:

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Mr. Dick Herland.

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