America__Living_And_Breathing_In_Fear

America: Living And Breathing In Fear “If more guns make people safer then America would be one of the safest places in the world, but it is the opposite.” The quote was from Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine; in Moore’s film he tries to discover why and what makes Americans so violent. He takes many different approaches in trying to find out the truth; Moore interviews people like the National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston to shock rocker Marilyn Manson. He came across many different causes as to why we are so violent, but two were most prevalent to me. The first cause seemed to be that people are taking the Second Amendment, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,” to the extreme. They have taken the “right to bear arms” and turned it into an excuse to keep a loaded gun in every room of the house. People have eliminated the middle man, becoming their own police, and have taken the law into their own hands. They are claiming that it is an American tradition and responsibility to be armed. Their argument is that people, being, fear, house, gun, free, film, every, even, different, thinking, same, own, moore, left, keep, crimes, virgin, violent, violence, turned, town, television, taken, state, security, second, right, required, programs, percent, out, necessary, moore’s, marilyn, manson