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BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, By Michael Moore

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In the documentary “BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE”, Michael Moore uses the South Park cartoon “A brief history of the United States” to momentarily illustrate how fear has driven the history of the United States. The narrator of the film is a bullet cartoon character and he explains how the Pilgrims were afraid of being persecuted and sailed to the New World. When they arrived in the New World they encountered Natives and were again afraid of them so they killed them all. After the Pilgrims killed all the Natives, they got afraid of each other, burned witches, and killed the British in the Revolutionary war, but they were still afraid. The Pilgrims then created the 2nd Amendment, giving every white man the ability to keep their guns. The film then

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