God, Guns, and Michael Moore
Page W. H. Brousseau IV
Issue date: 11/7/02 Section: Opinion
The views and opinions in this piece do not necessarily represent those of The Michigan Times.
I met Michael Moore in 2000 while working at the gun department of a local outdoors store. Moore told us he was filming a movie about guns in America. I was skeptical and told him as much. He said he was not making an anti-gun movie, but an anti-violence movie. He filmed a little, signed my National Rifle Association (NRA) card and left. Months of editing later and after cutting me out of the movie he has finally released it.
Bowling for Columbine is at times disjointed and contradictory; not to say it is not shocking and thought provoking. As an NRA Life Time member, I can honestly say I enjoyed it. Bowling for Columbine is the story of Moore seeking the reason to why America has such a high firearm homicide rate.
His adventures take him from Littleton, CO the site of the 1999 Columbine shooting, to Canada, Flint, and finally NRA President Charlton Heston's home for a climatic interview. Moore seemed able to control his leftist view on life at various points during the movie but his overwhelming pathos in life permeates the entire film.
Moore, like many Liberals who live in the big cities have three truths in life (1) the rich screw everyone, (2) the government only cares for the rich and the military, and last but not least (3) America would be a better place if white Americans were not so racist. There may be certain amount of truth in all three of these, but none are an absolute fact.
Moore talks about the mother of the six-year-old boy who shot Kayla Roland at Buell Elementary in Mt. Morris Township. Moore sensibly raises the question as to why a single mother is bussed 40 miles (from Flint to Great Lakes Crossing) to work for a near minimum wage.
Moore makes a connection that only he could - Dick Clark is responsible. Clark, the cultural music icon, owned the restaurant in the mall where Ms. Owens worked. Using Moore's logic, Clark in California should know why this poor woman was bussed 80 miles a day. Then forced to put her son in a crack house owned by her brother, where the boy found the gun.
I met Michael Moore in 2000 while working at the gun department of a local outdoors store. Moore told us he was filming a movie about guns in America. I was skeptical and told him as much. He said he was not making an anti-gun movie, but an anti-violence movie. He filmed a little, signed my National Rifle Association (NRA) card and left. Months of editing later and after cutting me out of the movie he has finally released it.
Bowling for Columbine is at times disjointed and contradictory; not to say it is not shocking and thought provoking. As an NRA Life Time member, I can honestly say I enjoyed it. Bowling for Columbine is the story of Moore seeking the reason to why America has such a high firearm homicide rate.
His adventures take him from Littleton, CO the site of the 1999 Columbine shooting, to Canada, Flint, and finally NRA President Charlton Heston's home for a climatic interview. Moore seemed able to control his leftist view on life at various points during the movie but his overwhelming pathos in life permeates the entire film.
Moore, like many Liberals who live in the big cities have three truths in life (1) the rich screw everyone, (2) the government only cares for the rich and the military, and last but not least (3) America would be a better place if white Americans were not so racist. There may be certain amount of truth in all three of these, but none are an absolute fact.
Moore talks about the mother of the six-year-old boy who shot Kayla Roland at Buell Elementary in Mt. Morris Township. Moore sensibly raises the question as to why a single mother is bussed 40 miles (from Flint to Great Lakes Crossing) to work for a near minimum wage.
Moore makes a connection that only he could - Dick Clark is responsible. Clark, the cultural music icon, owned the restaurant in the mall where Ms. Owens worked. Using Moore's logic, Clark in California should know why this poor woman was bussed 80 miles a day. Then forced to put her son in a crack house owned by her brother, where the boy found the gun.
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