Bowling for death

Based on Bowling For Columbine

Who is to blame?

In 1999 a horrific event occurred in America, Columbine. A high school massacre occurred involving 12 deaths of students and a death of a teacher, the killers a group of teens. The question is how did they get the guns, and who is to blame?

It probably is not a surprise to many that a group of teens could even get a hand on a firearm. A country with 200 million guns that is just saying that in every household there is a firearm.

In bowling for Columbine a documentary Michael Moore produced and starred in, he goes to Columbine and tries to find the truth behind the shooting. He comes across a bank “open a bank account get a free gun”. He opens an account and fills out a form. He later says jokingly “don’t you think its dangerous handing out guns in a bank”.

It is agitating how after the shooting, the NRA did not care one bit for what happened, at a NRA convention a quote from Charlton Heston saying “in my cold dead hands” as he said that he raised his hand with a gun in it.

The fear that has struck people, is that so many people who watch T.V get these crazy ideas that they can go and kill people, either get away with it or get caught. Then people either turn the gun on themselves or face the sentence. When they turn the gun on them selves it’s not just suicide that they have committed, most of them do it because they either don’t want to face the problems from there actions or don’t want to face the time in prison. So they go suicidal after committing mass murder.

This is a great question to ask because not many people really know who/what is to blame. Many people have there own opinions about this. Different groups of people say it’s about the media, The Gun Laws that are in America the young stupid people, many different peoples opinions lead to different stories.

The fear that has struck people, is that so many people who watch T.V get these crazy ideas that they can go and kill people, either get away with it or get caught. Then people either turn the gun on themselves or face the sentence. Today in Americas society more and more people are being killed by the gun violence taking place all over the Country. People are killed from “accidental” shooting, homicide and suicide, not only that but they even hand out guns at gun shows. People also get mass influence by the media, the media controls so many minds in the huge world that it isn’t even near being funny. The media influence gun violence all around the world.

The Gun Laws in America are quite different to ours in Australia yet, the same things happen but less rapidly. In America you can hold a gun on your, in your house and carry it pretty much anywhere without gun bans. (not to many places).Michael Moore exaggerated a lot of his work like how easy it was to get the gun from the bank. Some people are really fearful of things, so they arm themselves with weapons. Other have gun for fun like hunting.

Whatever the excuse guns don’t bring peace.