Bowling For Columbine Answers

Bowling for Columbine

Some Potential Questions for ESL Class Discussion

1. Who is to blame for the Columbine massacre? The two kids? Their parents?
Easy access to guns? Marilyn Manson? The school? The other students who
teased and made fun of them? Poverty? Injustice? Kmart? American society?….
I think that there are many reasons why this occur. One of them is that there were studentsthat teased and made fun of them. Inside schools societies exists and these two boys were exclude from them moreover they were catalog as weird and they were object of fun.
Well the American Society has to do with this because it is a society full of injustice. It is full of violence and promotion of hate, the values in this society are in decadence. The only that matters is money no matter what isthe way of having it. Taking Marilyn Manson as the principal reason of this massacre is not correct but it influence in it. He in the documentary talks about how they feel and what they have to say but everybody know that they were tired of the people in the school that make fun of them and the lyrics of Manson are not truly of find a solution with a conversation they are about of killing andmurdering and promoting hate. Music influence our minds in a very powerful way but the music industry is full of these promotion of hate and violence so he is not the only. The easy access of to gun it is what make that all these occurs but if there will not be an easy access to it, it will be very difficult for an average teenager to access to it, but moreover of accessing to the guns all depend onhow they use it. The guns do not should be use for killing our similar but the society not only in America has loose there values because of this the other students teased and made fun of them, because of these two boys make these massacre, this is why the parents do not look for these boys it is all about the loose of values of the societies.

2. Do you believe in gun control? Would it work?Is there some kind of gun
control in the country you’re from?
Even gun control becomes stricter people will still found the way of having gun because they live in a corrupted society full of violence. But is very important because it will help reducing the access to it in a big way but many people will still having them. In my country supposedly it is a gun control but the illicitly things arevery common here so there is sadly a big access to it.

3. Do you agree with Michael Moore that the United States, unlike Canada, is a
country dominated by fear? What are we afraid of?
I totally agree with this. The United States unlike of Canada are afraid. It have been loaded of fear thanks to the media. This is reflected in what happened in the George Bush government the people was loaded offear. Now if someone see a Muslim person everybody want even to run away. I think that United States people are afraid because of these idea that they should not trust anybody and I thinks these is an idea that the government has implant in their lives.

4. Do you think Moore’s way of interviewing people such as Charleston Heston,
John Nichols and the spokespeople for Lockheed and Kmart was alittle unfair?

Well the way of interviewing this people is to make them show as bad people. But well what he is doing is to making us to what is happening really he is making the arguments of the other invalid but it can be seen a little unfairly because he is always attacking them.
5. Why do you think there is so much violence in the United States?
What can we do about it?

I think becausethey have loose there values, in my personal opinion they have forget about God. They do whatever they want feeling the feel as the king of the world and they have loose their values fighting for these idea.
6. Are people in the Michigan militia just patriotic, or crazy, or both?
I think that they are both. They have these idea of protecting their country and that is patriotic but they are...