how good is owling for columbine?
I’ve heard many, many good comments about Michael Moore’s documentary Bowling for Columbine in which he examines the ‘gun culture’ of the US, and tries to find reasons why the US has a higher rate of gun homicides than any other country in the world. However, I missed it when it got released here in Ireland, so now I’m waiting for the DVD. In the meantime, I found two sites (here and here) that debunk several, if not all, the premises on which the documentary was built. Since I haven’t seen the movie I can’t really comment, but one thing I find interesting about this “debunking” is that it should be easy to verify; I mean, just watch the movie and these things should be obvious. For example, the splicing of different Charlton Heston speeches mentioned in the first article should be clear since it appears that he is wearing two different suits in a segment that implies the sequence is linear. The spinsanity piece (second link) is particularly interesting to me since they are non-partisa
