Bowling for Columbine
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1:10:01
Unless we can get those people
to get in their SUVs

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and drive really fast down
the road away from the police.

1:10:08
- But I'm telling you,
everyone in America

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who's got just your basic,
everyday job

1:10:13
is gonna love watching the boss
1:10:15
being chased down the street
with his shirt off,

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thrown to the ground
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and a knee to the neck. I tell
you, that is gonna get ratings.

1:10:22
- Yeah, I'm with you. And if
I can find a police outfit

1:10:25
that would prosecute corporate
criminals appropriately

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and would go after them
appropriately... In other words,

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what you do to a man who's
just stolen a lady's purse

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with $85 to it,
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than you need to do
an appropriate response

1:10:39
to a man who has just stolen $85
million from indigent people,

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then, boy, we're gonna be
out there filming that.

1:10:45
But as a matter of fact,
when police go after the guy

1:10:48
who's just stolen $85 million,
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they treat him like he was
a member of the city council -

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as he may or may not be - and
it's not exciting television.

1:10:57
If you could get that guy
to take his shirt off...

1:10:59
- Right.
1:11:01
- Yeah, and throw his cellular
phone at the police

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as they come through the door,
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try to jump out that window,
then we'd have a show.

1:11:08
- You watch violence on TV
in a place like Canada

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and you know it's not happening
next door.

1:11:13
You watch it here, and you know
it is happening next door.

1:11:17
- Right.
- I think that's...

1:11:19
I don't know what
the difference is,

1:11:21
but there's a big difference.
- Yeah, but why isn't...

1:11:23
Why isn't it happening
in Canada?

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Why aren't there, you know,
10,000 murders a year?

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- I don't know, but I want
to go to Canada to retire,

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or something, 'cause it sounds
like where we want to be.

1:11:34
I'd like to find out what that
difference is. Wouldn't you?

1:11:37
- Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying
to find out.

1:11:45
Where are you supposed
to be right now?

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- School.
- School.

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- School.
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- Aren't you worried about
what you're not learning?

1:11:54
- Nah, I'm mostly helping
everybody else in the class.

1:11:56
Then I barely get to do my work.
- How about you? You're not

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worried about your education?
- Well, I've got the textbook.


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