blake johnson

I finished watching Bowling for Columbine this weekend. While I must admit that I did find this moving entertaining, I really did not care for this movie at all. Michael Moore was extremely sloppy in his arguments. First he wanted to say that Americans have too many guns, then he goes to Canada and says, “wait, they have a lot of guns too and they don’t kill each other”. Then he brings two kids from Columbine into K-Mart headquarters and demands that they stop selling bullets in their stores. What’s it going to be, Mr. Moore? Guns are the problem or guns aren’t the problem?

Moore does make an interesting point (along with Marilyn Manson) regarding the news media and promoting a culture of fear. But I really have a hard time believing that TV is the only problem.

And why does Moore pick on Lockheed-Martin? His conspiracy theory claim about Lockheed promoting a culture of fear to sell more bombs and airplanes is absolutely ridiculous.

I think I’ll be avoiding Moore documentarys from now on unless I hear that he makes something particularly amusing.