OT: Bowling for Columbine

[jimbob]

It was an amazing movie in many ways - he's far more compassionate/real with people than say the '60 minutes' crew.

And while it is far less slanted than what you'd get from 60 minutes, there's plenty of places where (as a Canadian who has more than a few American relatives) I could see that the whole truth wasn't really being told.

For example, he gave total numbers of deaths by gun by country, which is fine I suppose , but it's far less dramatic when you recalculate in percapita... for example Canada has about 1/10th the population of the U.S.A., and so of course our gun related death values will be lower. And yes, while we do have a whole swack of guns in Canada, the ratio is far lower than that in the U.S. - he really should have done a comparison of number of guns per household US vs # guns/household Canada. Additionally our type of gun matters, our % handguns is radically lower.

I do agree with his general premise however, that the root cause has more to do with fear than any other factor. The one that really got me was the Anthrax scare. Does joe-trailer park really think he's important enough to get an anthrax letter? I mean honestly, short of having major celebrity status, we're all pretty safe.

Just my 2 cents. I really liked the movie.