Bowling for Columbine -- STRIKE FOR MOORE!

If you see no other movie this year - see Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Being in the audience was like taking part in a protest rally. People often stood and cheered as the credits rolled. This country has 11,000 gun murders every year. In the movie Moore travels through this country attempting to find answers to the question: Why are we shooting each other? The movie suggests that something else besides access to firearms must explain America's violence. Moore points out that Canada, a nation of hunters, boasts more guns per capita than the United States. Yet Canada's annual rate of murder is an infinitesimal fraction of any major American city's annual rate. The movie sends the message that guns in themselves are neutral, but lethal in the hands of certain kinds of inflamed people.

Moore visits a bank, that unaware of the irony, gives away free guns on the spot when you open a bank account; he also goes to Kmart headquarters with two Columbine High School survivors, one in a wheelchair, to "return" the 17-cent bullets that ripped through their bodies. He asks the question: Why does the NRA feel the need to show up at massacre sites, rubbing salt into the wounds?

Moore also makes the connection between U.S. violence overseas and at home when he points out that the Columbine massacre occurred on April 20, 1999 - the heaviest day of U.S. bombing in Kosovo.-MUST SEE