ShadowTiger
11-04-2003, 05:20 PM
We've been watching the movie Bowling for Columbine in our government class in school. This movie has really shown me a lot of stuff. It's made me think. I really don't have my thoughts organized, but let me put it to you this way. ..
America is paranoid. That pretty much sums it all up, pretty well. Most European countries have a death by gun count of about 1-3 hundred a year. Do you know how many times you would have to multiply that to reach America's annual death-by-gun count? It's well past the single-digits range, and well into the double-digits. (Somewhere around the 10,000 range, but definitely more than that.)
Remember the 6 year old shooting in Flint, Michigan? It was the youngest violent shooting ever! A 6 YEAR OLD! :eek: He came from a poor family, where the father had left, and the mother was forced to travel 80 miles to take on 2 jobs just to feed the kid alone, and she wasn't making enough to support herself or pay the rent on those 2 jobs. Hell... Truly Hell.
And the media is blamed, by far. It's also Marilyn Manson and his "Shock Rock" that influence the kids.
Maybe I should take out my crudely scrawled notes and see what I can come up with.
Discuss.
America is paranoid. That pretty much sums it all up, pretty well. Most European countries have a death by gun count of about 1-3 hundred a year. Do you know how many times you would have to multiply that to reach America's annual death-by-gun count? It's well past the single-digits range, and well into the double-digits. (Somewhere around the 10,000 range, but definitely more than that.)
Remember the 6 year old shooting in Flint, Michigan? It was the youngest violent shooting ever! A 6 YEAR OLD! :eek: He came from a poor family, where the father had left, and the mother was forced to travel 80 miles to take on 2 jobs just to feed the kid alone, and she wasn't making enough to support herself or pay the rent on those 2 jobs. Hell... Truly Hell.
And the media is blamed, by far. It's also Marilyn Manson and his "Shock Rock" that influence the kids.
Maybe I should take out my crudely scrawled notes and see what I can come up with.
Discuss.