Bowling for Columbine
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- Just as he did

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after the Columbine shooting,
Charlton Heston showed up

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in Flint to have
a big pro-gun rally.

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- Freedom has never seen
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greater peril nor needed
you more urgently

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to come to her defence than now.
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- Before he came to Flint,
Heston was interviewed

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by the Georgetown Hoya
about Kayla's death,

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and even his own NRA website
talked about it.

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- We wanted to let the NRA know
that we haven't forgotten

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about Kayla Rolland.
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How could they come here?
To me, it's like they're rubbing

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our nose in it. I was shocked
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and appalled that
they would come here.

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- Heston was asked by a local
reporter why he came to Flint

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after the tragedy at Buell,
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and what did the NRA
have to say

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about six-year-olds using guns.
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- We spend $20 million every year
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and then we teach you...
to five and six-year-olds,

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we say, "If you see a gun,
don't touch it,

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leave the room, call an adult."
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- And then Moses himself
showed up.

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- Right here in the city
of Flint?

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- Right here in Flint.
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- Were there people that wanted
you to try this child,

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Arthur Busch
County Prosecutor, Flint, Michigan

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or even try him as an adult?
- Oh... Oh, yeah.

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There were people from all over
America that wrote and called

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and sent mail and...
It was amazing to me, um...

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groups that were affiliated
with the NRA -

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groups, you know, people
that I call "gun nuts" -

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writing me and telling me
what a horrible thing it was

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that I had admonished homeowners
in our country

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to be careful about bringing
weapons into their home.

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They wanted this little boy
hung from the highest tree.

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I mean, there was such
an undercurrent of racism

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and hate and anger.
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It was ugly.
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- That's a picture that
the little boy that was involved

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in the Buell-school shooting...

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