Bowling for Columbine
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- I'll save you the trouble.
I'll run away and kill myself!

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How would you like that?
You can't keep me here!

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- But statistics show
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that there are more
broken homes and divorce

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in Great Britain
than in the U.S.

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- It's official:
Fergie's marriage has ended.

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- Liberals contend that it's all
the poverty we have in America

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that causes all this violence.
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But the unemployment rate
in Canada

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is twice what it is here.
Of course, most people say

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it's because we Americans
have a violent history,

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a violent past.
Cowboys and Indians,

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the Wild West,
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a history of conquering
and bloodshed.

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Well, if that's all
it takes to end up

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with such a violent society
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like we have in America,
how do you explain this?

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GERMANS EXTERMINATE 12 MILLION
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JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF CHINA
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FRENCH MASSACRE IN ALGIERS
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BRITISH SLAUGHTER IN INDIA
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Yet in spite of all this,
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how many people are killed
by guns each year?

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In Germany:
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In France:
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In Canada:
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In the United Kingdom:
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In Australia:
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In Japan:
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In the United States:
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- But that, to me, brings up
an important question:

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Then what is so different
about Americans?

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Tom Mauser
Father of Columbine victim

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Are we homicidal in nature?
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Because in Europe and Australia,
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most other free-world countries,
they don't have this.

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They don't have people who snap
and go on murderous rampages.


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