Bowling for Columbine
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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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- "So many Americans
kill each other?"

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I don't know that that's true,
but, uh...

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- Well, no, you know that.
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We know we have the highest
murder rate with guns.

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It's way higher
than any other country.

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- The only answer I can give you
is the one I already gave you.

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- Which is?
- Which is that we have, uh...

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- Historically--
- ...a history of violence.

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Perhaps more than most
countries. Not more than Russia,

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not more than Japan or China--
- Not more than Germany.

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- Not more than Germany,
but certainly more than Canada.

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- I come from Flint, Michigan,
and last year,

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a little six-year-old boy
took a gun into a classroom

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and shot and killed a
six-year-old girl. And, uh...

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it was really a tragic thing--
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- This was a kid, though.
- A six-year-old, yeah.

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Did you hear about this?
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A six-year-old shooting
a six-year-old?

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- Yeah.
- Well, here's my question.

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After that happened,
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you came to Flint
and held a big rally.

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- Mm-hm.
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- And, you know, I just--

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