Bowling for Columbine
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1:49:05
[ theme music from
"Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" ]

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- Hi. Good morning.
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How are you?
- Fine.

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- Thank you very much
for agreeing to see me.

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He took me out
to his pool-and-tennis house

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so we could have a chat.
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I told him that I was
a lifetime member of the NRA

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and showed him
my membership card.

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- Good for you. Well done.
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- I assume you have guns
in the house here?

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- Indeed I do.
Bad guys take notice!

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- So you have them
for protection?

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- Yeah. Sure.
- Have you ever been

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a victim of crime?
- No. No.

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- Never been assaulted or...?
- No.

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- No violence toward you,
but you have guns in the house.

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- Loaded.
- They're loaded?

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- Well, if you really needed
a weapon for self-defence,

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you need it loaded.
- Okay, but why...

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why do you need it for
self-defence? Because--

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- I don't.
- Yeah, you've never been

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a victim of crime,
you haven't been assaulted.

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- No, that's true.
- You haven't been, you know...

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Why would you... So why not...
Why don't you unload the gun?

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- Because the second amendment
gives me the right

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to have it loaded.
- I agree.

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I totally agree with that.
I'm just saying... I mean,

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the second amendment gives me--
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- Let's say it's
a comfort factor.

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- It gives you comfort to know
that there's a loaded gun.

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- Yeah.
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- Comfort meaning that it allows
you to relax and feel safe?

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- Not worry about it.
- Not worry, not be afraid.

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- And I'm not really, but, uh...
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I'm exercising one of the rights
passed on down to me

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from those wise, old, dead white
guys that invented this country.


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