Gun Control In Bowling For Columbine, By Michael Moore

In the documentary, Bowling for Columbine, film maker Michael Moore stresses the importance of more gun control in America. Moore focuses mainly on the shooting at Columbine high school in Colorado. He continues his documentary by examining why there are more yearly shootings in America than in other countries such as Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. When Americans are exposed to just as much violence through the media, the poverty rates are equivalent, or more so in other countries like Canada, and people leave their doors unlocked, why does America kill the most?
Moore conducts multiple interviews on different groups of people throughout the United States. Even though each of the people being interviewed

While filming, Moore opens an account with the bank and is awarded a gun of his choice. Moore walks out the bank saying, “Do you think it’s dangerous handing out guns in a bank?” This specific scene emphasizes the need for more extensive gun control in America. As mentioned earlier, a young man with no criminal record had the materials and knowledge to build a bomb. If this teenager opened a bank account with the local bank, he would be given a free

The film uses a variety of interviews from people who support the ownership of guns and people who are victims of gun violence. Moore also discusses the possible reasons for the number of gun related deaths and murders each year, but allows the audience to develop their own ideas about further guns restrictions. Although Moore never blatantly states his opinions on gun control, he focuses his interviews on people who have been directly affected by gun violence, people from low income areas who are uneducated and support the use of guns, and he questions the intentions of large, successful corporations. Each of these interviews and candid questions imply that Moore supports further gun control as he focuses on the negative aspects of owning a weapon with the ability to kill someone. Bowling for Columbine brilliantly related fear within American people caused by the media to the high number of gun owners by using creative scenes and imagines. Moore is correct to call attention to the number of gun related deaths in America as they amounted to 33,599 in 2014, according to the CDC, Centers for Disease Control. Of the 33,599 mortalities, two-thirds were intentional suicides and the CDC reveals that 12,000 of those deaths were