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Who's to Blame

After watching “Bowling for Columbine” written by Michael Moore, your mind may be filled with many new thoughts on who to blame for our nation’s knack of always acting in violence. Some of the problems that come to mind after watching this movie may be poverty, gun control, media, or even politics. Moore doesn’t necessarily place the blame on anything in particular, but through the movie you are able to see that things need to be changed when Americans act in violent ways such as killing 11,127 annually by gunshot, and some of those shooting happening in schools across the country. There is a lot of finger pointing but Moore doesn’t give any suggestions on how to actually control the violence anywhere in his film. He leaves it up to his audience to answer this on their own with the information he has given them
Throughout the movie celebrities are used in the blame game as well. Moore uses famous people because...

Posted by: Margaret Rowden

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