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To: longnshort who wrote (137467)	6/22/2004 1:25:26 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

i almost feel sorry for you but not quite

To: longnshort who wrote (137467)	6/22/2004 1:40:11 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

In Bowling for Columbine, the problem was not so much deceit as intellectual incoherence, mind- numbing political correctness, the substitution of attitude for argument, and a self- righteousness associated with knowing when to choke up. He does not show much about Columbine itself, but tries to establish a connection with the "gun culture" of rural Michigan, where he grew up. Of course, later he notes that Canada is full of guns, but has a much lower rate of gun deaths, thus undermining any point about the "gun culture" he may have been making. Similarly, he makes a PC list of supposed wicked Cold War interventions by the United States, trying to connect our "militarism" with Columbine, but later notes that Germany, which offered us the Nazis, and Great Britian, until recently an Empire, both have fewer gun deaths proportionately in their countries, thus showing us, once again, that he has wasted our time. He manages to link excessive gun deaths with welfare reform, through a single anecdote unconnected to Columbine. The case does not prove much, in any event, since the mother in question had no more than an hour (each way) to commute to and from work, and the incident occurred only when she had a bit of financial trouble that goes unexplained, but which puts her at a relative's, where another child accidently fires a gun at her daughter. We learn little about the specifics of Columbine, nor is there an attempt to link incidents of mass school shootings. Nor is there an inquiry as to why such incidents increased markedly during the '90s, then precipitously declined. Overall, Bowling for Columbine is a stupefying journey into Michael Moore's mind, the mind of a sentimental Leftist........