Bowling for Columbine
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They got scared all over again.
- Injuns!

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- So they killed them all.
Now, you'd think

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wiping out a race of people
would calm them down, but no.

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Instead, they started getting
frightened of each other.

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[ both ]: Witch!
- So they burned witches.

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In 1775,
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they started killing the
British, so they could be free.

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And it worked.
But they still didn't feel safe.

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So they passed a 2nd amendment,
which said every white man

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could keep his gun.
- I loves my gun, loves my gun.

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- This brings us to
the genius idea of slavery.

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You see, boys and girls,
the white people back then

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were also afraid of doing any
work. So they went to Africa,

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kidnapped thousands of black
people, brought them to America,

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and forced them to work
very hard for no money.

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And I don't mean no money like:
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"I work at Wal-Mart
and make no money."

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I mean zero dollars.
Nothing, nada, zip.

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Doing it that way made the USA
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the richest country
in the world.

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So did having all that money
and free help

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calm the white people down? No
way. They got even more afraid.

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That's because after
200 years of slavery,

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the black people now outnumbered
the white people in many parts

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of the South. Well, you can
pretty much what came next.

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The slaves started rebelling.
There were uprisings

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and old masters' heads
got chopped off

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and when white people heard of
this, they were freaking out.

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They going:
- I want to live!

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Don't kill me, big black man.
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- Well, just in the nick of time
came Samuel Colt, who,

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in 1836, invented the first
weapon ever that could be fired

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over and over without
having to reload.

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And all the settlers were, like:
- Yee-hah!

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- But it was too late.
The North soon won the Civil War

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and the slaves were free to go
chop the old masters' heads off.

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Then everybody was, like:
- Oh, no, we're gonna die.

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- But the freed slaves
took no revenge.

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They just wanted
to live in peace.

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But you couldn't convince
the white people of this.

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So they formed the Ku Klux Klan
and, in 1871,

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the same year the Klan became an
illegal terrorist organization,

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another group was founded:
the National Rifle Association.

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Soon, politicians passed
one of the first gun laws,

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making it illegal for any black
person to own one.

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It was a great year for America.
he KKK and the NRA.

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Of course, they had nothing
to do with each other;


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