[thechat] Bowling for Columbine

Jonathon Isaac Swiderski jswiders at cs.oberlin.edu
Fri Jan 24 16:04:08 CST 2003


Today, the cows mooved Isaac Forman to write:

> Last night I saw Bowling for Columbine and really enjoyed it.
>
> I'm interested to know more about its release and reception in other parts
> of the world.
>
> Has anyone else seen it?

My girlfriend recently saw it --- her for the third or fourth time, it's
*that* good.

worth the price of admission just to see Charlton Heston (recent
(figure?)head of the US's leading gun lobby) explain why he needs to keep
loaded handguns around his gated mansion at the top of one of America's
most exclusive suburbs (Beverley Hills, Calif.), and why he thinks America
has so many more gun deaths than other European cultures.

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