The Media And Violence In Bowling For Columbine, By Michael Moore

11 127 is the number of people in the US that are killed because of gun crimes each year. In Germany that number is 381, while in Australia it’s 65. We’re given this information in the documentary, Bowling for Columbine (2002) that was written and directed by Michael Moore. The documentary discusses gun crime in America with the main focus on what happened in Columbine when two boys named Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold brought guns to school and killed 12 students and one teacher. A lot of people think that these two boys did this because of the music they listened to and because of other types of media. I believe that the media can sometimes cause violence, because not everyone reacts the same way to certain things as others, but to do that
Eric and Dylan liked to play video games, and some people want to put the blame on that for what happened. You’d think that some stupid games couldn’t possibly have that much effect on a teenager, but there are people who lock themselves in their rooms for days just to play video games, and the games aren’t exactly Super Mario. In a lot of them you participate in criminal activities and you get rewarded for killing. So when parents let their kids play 18+ video games from a very young age it wouldn’t be a big surprise if that could jumble up their brains, and make them confuse right from wrong. Especially when they have this easy access to other people who thinks just like them thanks to the Internet. We can post anything we want on the Internet, it doesn’t matter if it’s true or if it’s going to hurt someone, and it’s easier to find information than ever. You could probably even find out how to build a homemade bomb if you searched Google for it. Some even say that spending too much time glued to a computer can cause anxiety and
They may have been part of causing Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold to do what they did, but I don’t believe that it had nearly as much influence as some would like to imagine. While people were putting all the blame on Marilyn Manson, the president was keeping busy bombing other countries. This was something brought up in the interview with Manson and I believe it was something that really needed to be pointed out. Not to mention Charlton Heston who travelled to Denver right after the school shooting to protect the American’s rights to bear arms. Michael Moore interviewed him in the documentary, and once Moore started asking some tough questions Heston just walked away, because he refused to even consider that he could be