Bowling for Columbine
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If it was good enough for them,
it's good enough for me.

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- But you could still
exercise the right,

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just by having a gun unloaded
and locked away somewhere.

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- I choose to have it.
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- What sort of strikes me
as interesting is that,

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in other countries, where
they don't have the murder rate,

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the gun-murder rate
that we have, that, uh...

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many people say,
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"Well, that's because
they don't have guns around.

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It's hard to get a gun in
Britain or Germany or whatever."

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But we went to Canada and
there's seven million guns

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in 10-million homes.
- There won't be very long.

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- But hear me out, though.
- Okay.

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- Canada is a nation of hunters,
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millions of guns,
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and yet, they had just
a few murders last year.

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That's it. A country
of 30-million people.

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Now, why - here's my question -
why is it that...

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that they've got all these guns
laying around,

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yet they don't kill each other
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at the level that
we kill each other?

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- I think American history is...
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uh... has a lot of blood
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on its hands.
- And Germany history doesn't?

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- No.
- And British history?

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- I don't think as much.
- Oh, are you...

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Germans don't have as much,
blood on their hands?

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- Uh, they do, yes.
- The Brits, they ruled the world

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for 300 years
at the barrel of a gun.

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They're all violent people. They
have bad guys, they have crime,

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they have lots of guns--
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- Well, it's an interesting
point, which can be explored

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and you're good to explore it
at great lengths,

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but I think that's about all
I have to say on it.

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- You don't have any opinion,
though, as to why that is,

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that we are the unique country,
the only country,

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that does this, that kills each
other on this level, with guns?

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- Well, we have, probably,
more mixed ethnicity

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than other countries,
some other countries.

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- You think it's an ethnic thing?
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- No, I don't. It's...
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I wouldn't go so far
as to say that.

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We had enough problems with
civil rights in the beginning.

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It's... But, uh, I have
no answer for that.

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- What do you mean, you think
it's a mixed ethnicity?

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I don't understand.
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- You said, "How is it that..."
- That we're unique.


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