Bowling for Columbine
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and he's done the research.
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- The only way that you can tell
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the two of them, is doing
measurements on the body parts.

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- Quite frankly,
the black community has become

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entertainment for the rest
of the community.

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- Meaning what?
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Arthur Busch
County Prosecutor - Flint, Michigan

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- The entertainment being
that the crime of the day -

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you know, "If it bleeds,
it leads" -

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gets to be the front story and
then that becomes the perception

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and the image of
an entire people.

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Which couldn't be further
from the truth, in my opinion.

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In fact, you'll find, I think,
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most African-Americans are quite
adverse to gun possession.

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In suburbia, I think,
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there's some notion that there's
going to be an invading horde,

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come from either the city
or from someplace unknown,

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to savage their suburban
community.

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To me, not only is it bizarre,
but it's totally, uh...

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unfounded.
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And these pistols,
curiously enough,

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weren't being taken off kids
in the city of Flint,

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but were being taken off of kids
out in the out-county area,

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in the suburban communities.
And--

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- I didn't think that's
what you were gonna say.

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I thought you were gonna say
that it's all these black kids

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in the inner-city schools
that had these guns.

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- No, that's...
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We've never really had many
problems with guns in the city.

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Not to say that we haven't;
we've had some.

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But that's never been
the biggest problem.

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The biggest problem has been
the gun possession

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by these adolescents
in suburbia.

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- How'd you get a gun?
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- I stole mine. I stole it
from a friend of mine.

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His dad owns a bunch of guns.
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- What we're you doing
with the stolen guns?

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- We went down to Detroit
and started selling them.

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'Cause I can get, like, a buck
fifty a pop for a 9-millimetre.

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- Oh, really. Who were you trying
to sell them to?

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- Anybody that would really want
'em. Gangs and stuff like that.

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- Gangs in the city of Detroit?
- Yeah.


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