Bowling for Columbine
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where Tamarla worked
one of her two jobs.

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"On the Bandstand
Bandstand"

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- I think she worked in this room
here, as a bartender,

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fountain-person making drinks,
making shakes, desserts.

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- Was she a good employee?
- Yeah, she was.

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She also worked at the Fudgery,
in the mall here.

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- Dick Clark is
an American icon,

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the man who brought rock'n'roll
into our homes every week

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on American Bandstand.
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- Every part of your life,
you can link up

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to a part of music, usually.
So, as Dick says,

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"It's the soundtrack
of our lives."

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Music's the soundtrack
of our lives.

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- His restaurant and the
Fudgery, here in Auburn Hills,

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applied for special tax breaks
because they were using

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welfare people as employees.
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Even though Tamarla worked
up to 70 hours a week

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at these two jobs
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in the mall, she did not earn
enough to pay her rent.

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And one week before
the shooting,

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was told by her landlord
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that he was evicting her.
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With nowhere to go
and not wanting to take

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her two children out of school,
Tamarla asked her brother

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if they could stay with him
for a few weeks.

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It was there that Tamarla's son
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found a small 32-calibre gun
and took it to school.

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Tamarla did not see him
take the gun to school,

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because she was on a state bus
to go serve drinks

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and make fudge for rich people.
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"Bandstand"
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I decided to fly out
to California

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to ask Dick Clark what
he thought about a system

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that forces poor,
single mothers to work

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two low-wage jobs to survive.
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I'm doing a documentary
on these school shootings

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and, you know,
guns and all that.

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And in my hometown of Flint
Michigan, which you know,

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this little six-year-old
shot a six-year-old--

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- Get in the car, Dave!
Watch your arm, watch your arm.

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- Oop, sorry, sorry.
- I'm sorry, we're really late.

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- Anyways, but the mother of
the kid who did the shooting


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