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Bowling for Columbine--Part I.(Gun Rights)
Filmmaker Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine won an Oscar for Best Documentary of 2002. If, like me, you have avoided seeing this because you have heard Moore is anti-gun or can't stand his particular form of film "journalism," I recommend you rent it and watch it. There are things to be learned from it.
Bowling is ostensibly about Mr. Moore's search for answers to the question: why is there so much gun violence in America? He considers, questions and rejects commonly given answers, and ultimately proposes one of his own. In particular, he argues persuasively the availability and number of guns in America is NOT the problem. Nevertheless, much of his ...
- Gun control attitudes and the criminal justice student: do differences exist?
- Magazine article from: College Student Journal Payne, Brian K. Riedel, Robert, Jr. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...in favor of stricter gun control laws (Moore & Newport, 1994...whole supports stricter gun control laws, differences in...1992; Mauder, 1990; Moore & Newport, 1994...more likely to oppose gun control than females are (Ellison...
- Gun-Control Efforts Gain Intensity; National Debate Focuses on California, Site...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jay Mathews February 17, 1989 700+ words
...being considered soft on gun control can now cloak themselves...strong opposition to gun-control measures won them important...Monte, was picketed by a gun-control group this morning after...rifle importers. Dianne Moore, a senior disclosure...
- Society needs religion not gun control.(Commentary)(Forum)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 23, 1999 700+ words
...lamentable state of affairs. Gun control, and/or more education...future school shootings. Gun control advocates are once again...say-it reasoning for gun control. It is insulting to the...judge in Alabama, Roy Moore, is legally harassed...
- BLACKLISTED AND MISUNDERSTOOD ON GUN CONTROL.(City Desk/Local)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Johnson^, Bill November 8, 2003 700+ words
...actively editorialize in favor of gun control laws,'' right after Bob...not include filmmaker Michael Moore, whose Bowling For Columbine...listed right after Mary Tyler Moore. Writing about guns and the...It is Andrew. ``Michael Moore is, in fact, on the list...
- Guns in the courtroom.(Outgunned: Up Against the NRA--The First Complete...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Bogus, Carl T. March 31, 2003 700+ words
...Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control. By Peter Harry Brown and Daniel...Mississippi's Attorney General Michael Moore had in the tobacco litigation...Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control tell us that when, in October 1998...
- Gun-control crowd misuses fear factor to distort the truth. (fair comment).
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Sowell, Thomas November 12, 2002 700+ words
...would be seized upon by advocates of gun control. Like so much in the agenda of the political left, gun-control arguments would collapse like a house...rhetoric. Start with the very name "gun control." Do gun-control laws actually...
- Tough Gun Control Law Under Fire in Wichita, Kansas
- Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) September 24, 1994 700+ words
...whether to repeal Wichita's tough new gun control ordinance. As part of NPR's election...on Kansans' concerns about crime and gun control. GORDON BASHAM, Reporter: A statewide...guns will do. BESHAM: The issue of gun control in Wichita will figure strongly in the...
- Gun control in Alberta: explaining public attitudes concerning legislative...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Criminology Hartnagel, Timothy F. October 1, 2002 700+ words
Introduction Stricter gun control laws were a contentious public policy...already had a fairly restrictive gun control law in place. But a number of women...such as the Canadian Coalition for Gun Control (2000) and the Canadian Bar Association...
