Bowling for Columbine
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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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If it was good enough for them,
it's good enough for me.

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- But you could still
exercise the right,

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just by having a gun unloaded
and locked away somewhere.

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- I choose to have it.
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- What sort of strikes me
as interesting is that,

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in other countries, where
they don't have the murder rate,

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the gun-murder rate
that we have, that, uh...

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many people say,
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"Well, that's because
they don't have guns around.

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It's hard to get a gun in
Britain or Germany or whatever."

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But we went to Canada and
there's seven million guns

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in 10-million homes.
- There won't be very long.

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- But hear me out, though.
- Okay.

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- Canada is a nation of hunters,
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millions of guns,
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and yet, they had just
a few murders last year.

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That's it. A country
of 30-million people.

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Now, why - here's my question -
why is it that...

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that they've got all these guns
laying around,

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yet they don't kill each other
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at the level that
we kill each other?

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- I think American history is...
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uh... has a lot of blood
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on its hands.
- And Germany history doesn't?

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- No.
- And British history?

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- I don't think as much.
- Oh, are you...


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