The movie Bowling for Columbine brought back a lot of memories for me. I have had a lot of different experiences with people I know getting shot. I have lost two brothers to guns. One was by a sixteen year old boy that shot my brother Richard with a sixteen gauge shotgun and my brother Bruce was a suicide by a small handgun. I not only lost two brothers too guns but I have also had my house shot up by a seventeen year old boy. The boy was mad at my step-son and while driving by my house he used a Tech-nine gun to shoot it up. This was caused by young teens having access to guns and ammunition. These were all senseless shootings.
This film is funny in parts but a lot more serious in others. When the movie first starts it shows Michael Moore bowling while words "are we a country of gun nuts or are we just nuts" comes across the screen (Bowling for Columbine). This should make you pay attention and think about what this movie is going to be about: that gun violence, especially that of children on children, is rampant in this country and easy access to guns is one of the reasons. Michael Moore is effective at showing that it is too easy for young children to get a hold of guns and ammunition because of , the violent scenes he shows, his interviews with people, and his emotional stories. .
There are a lot of different violent scenes in the movie that show people shooting each other, kids playing with play guns, students running and hiding under tables, and even a hunting dog with a gun on its back. When the hunter got shot when the gun fell off the dog's back Michael Moore asked the police officer "if the dog was carted off by the police and is it possible the dog knew what he was doing" (Bowling for Columbine)? Well how effective is this on getting his point across? If a dog can have a gun on his back and people are getting shot all the time then it is time that all of us realize that things are getting out of hand.
