An interview with Michael Moore about "Bowling for Columbine"

with Michael Moore
in Movies, TV & Theater, Current Affairs
on Tuesday, October 8, 2002 * * * * *

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Filmmaker Michael Moore on his new film, "Bowling for Columbine", which deals with the plague of violence in American society, which it attributes to overly lax gun policies. Moore also weighs in against the potential conflict in Iraq and his voice his opposition to the current administration.

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Iraq
Weapons
gun control
Saddam Hussein
Guns
Mass Destruction
Charlton Heston
bashing
Bush
Michael Moore
Fahrenheit 9/11

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    1. janeeyre  10/24/2009 02:54 PM Report

      How prophetic he seems sitting here in 2009. I know he has his own biases, but I love those biases. He's our Sinclair who said: "Governments lie." Yes, indeed.

    2. janeeyre  10/24/2009 02:54 PM Report

      How prophetic he seems sitting here in 2009. I know he has his own biases, but I love those biases. He's our Sinclair who said: "Governments lie." Yes, indeed.

    3. Christopher Bouchard  10/30/2007 02:16 AM Report

      I give credit to Moore. He was relevent and correct, Charlie's example of Israel's hit in 1981 of Iraq and Bush's invasion are two different things, it was an invalid premise to his question to Moore. You know, Moore supports getting Bin Laden fully... And he has not been invited since a long time (since Sicko). And a lot of guests who were dead wrong about Iraq have been on since...

      His comments on Martin Luther King's shooting and the reaction of the people in church is telling about America.

    4. simon  07/30/2007 11:21 PM Report

      I foudn a rather dubious source, but it would appear the united states is highest in handguns ownership, trailed by Switzerland.

      in america 29% of households have handguns.

      in switzerland 14% of households have handguns.

      Very interesting... not really sure what conclusion we can draw, although it would seem to me that the correlation is between concealable weapons and homicide rates, not firearms in general.

      Makes some sense... Harder to hide a large caliber hunting rifle.

    5. simon  07/30/2007 11:14 PM Report

      That's a good point Walid. I suppose there is a distinction when you are talking about concealed fire arms and shotguns/rifles.

      I wish the list of countries by gun ownership separated handguns from rifles/shotguns, then we could go about drawing some meaningful conclusion. I seriously wonder if America leads the world in handgun ownership? America is not number one in households with firearms, but without a distinction between concealable weapons and large, hunting weapons.

      Do you have that Data? Does anyone? I'll keep looking, if i find anything i'll post the link here.

    6. Walid  06/28/2007 09:59 AM Report

      "Switzerland has more gun ownership (and militias) yet less gun murder"

      -Last I checked, Switzerland isn't overrun with handguns. The guns in Switzerland tend to be either rifles or in the possession of conscripted soldiers. Most gun crime is committed with handguns by a shooter who knows his victim.

      -Also when I was in Switzerland I failed to see a single gun shop the entire time I was there.

      -The Swiss have very thorough background checks and restrictions when it comes to buying guns.

    7. Simon Doerksen  06/26/2007 12:27 PM Report

      My main issue with Michael Moore is that he twists facts.

      For example in the film he claims less guns would lead to less gun homicides, ignoring the fact that Switzerland has more gun ownership (and militias) yet less gun murder. Following the logic of that argument, if more guns meant more murders, switzerland would be a very bloody place. it simply isn't.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_by_gun_ownership

    8. Jean-Louis Rheault  06/10/2007 10:56 PM Report

      Re-listening to Michael Moore now I am struck by how un-radical his opinions now appear. I am also struck by how personally villified he was for holding them at the time.

      In all the recrimination going on about the Iraq war, I never hear about the reponsibility of the general American public.

      I was in the US in 2002 and I remember that everybody seemed very Gung-Ho on this war. If the Congress and the media tripped over themselves to shout their support, it's because they were following not leading public opinion.

      The conventional wisdom was simply to dismiss whatever Moore said because he was but a fat, sloppy, opportunistic idiot.

    9. John Fernlund  06/10/2007 04:47 PM Report

      To be fair - whatever you may think of him as a person - he was right about the war, the Bush Administration, and America's remarkable ablility to ignore poverty.