Bowling for Columbine
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And it was pretty much like
any other morning in America.

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The farmer did his chores,
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the milkman
made his deliveries,

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the president bombed
another country

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whose name
we couldn't pronounce.

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Out in Fargo, North Dakota,
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Carry McWilliams
went on his morning walk.

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Back in Michigan, Mrs. Hughes
welcomed her students

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for another day of school.
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And out in a little town
in Colorado,

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two boys went bowling
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at six in the morning.
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Yes, it was a typical day
in the United States

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of America.
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- Can I help you?
- Uh, yeah,

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I'm here to open up an account.
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- Okay, what type of account
would you like?

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- Um, I want the account where
I can, uh, get the free gun.

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- Okay.
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- I'd spotted an ad
in the local Michigan paper

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that said if you opened an
account at North Country Bank,

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the bank would give you a gun.
- You do a CD

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and we'll hand you a gun.
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We have a whole brochure here
that you can look at.

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Once we do the background check
and everything,

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it's yours to go.
- Okay. Well, all right,

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well, that's the account
I'd like to open.

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We have a vault, which
at all times we keep at least

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500 firearms.
- Five-hundred of these,

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you have in your vault?
- In our vault.

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- Wow.
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- We have to do
a background check.

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- At the bank here?
- At the bank,

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which we are a licensed
firearm dealer.

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- Oh, you are? You're a bank
and a licensed firearm dealer.

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What do I put for "race"?
White or Caucasian or...?

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- Caucasian.
- Caucasian.

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- I knew you were gonna make me
spell the... Cau-ca-sian.

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Is that right?
- Yes.

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I don't think that's the part
they're gonna be worried about.

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"Have you ever been adjudicated
mentally defective

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or have you ever been committed
to a mental institution?"

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I've never been committed
to a mental institution.

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What does that mean,
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"Have I ever been adjudicated
mentally defective"?

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- It would be something
involved with a crime.

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So if I'm just normally mentally
defective but not criminal...


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