Bowling For Columbine Movie Help?

I got a lil questionnaire I got to fill out for the movie Bowling For Columbine but I haven't seen it yet and was wondering if anyone who saw it, have a good recollection and help me with this assignment. Thanks!


-Katherine


What is the Michigan Militia? How might this be related to violence and deviance? What does the film show regarding this?





According to the film, has the US contributed to deviance outside of the country





What is the media’s role in deviance?





What are a few examples in the film of influences on deviance?





What have you learned from the film? Use at least one example from the film.

Bowling For Columbine Movie Help?
Michigan Militia


Moore visits a target practice session for members of the Michigan Militia. He gets their general views on gun ownership, including "You can't expect the police to protect you", "If you're not armed, you're not responsible." One militiaman says he has an M16 rifle as a personal weapon at home.


Early in the movie Moore links the violent behaviour of the Columbine shooters to the presence in Littleton of a large defence establishment, manufacturing rocket technology. It is implied that the presence of this facility, and the acceptance of institutionalized violence as a solution, contributed to the mindset that led to the massacre.





Moore conducts an interview with Evan McCollum, Director of Communications at a Lockheed Martin plant near Columbine, and asked him





"So you don't think our kids say to themselves, 'Dad goes off to the factory every day, he builds missiles of mass destruction. What's the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?'"


McCollum responded:





"I guess I don't see that specific connection because the missiles that you're talking about were built and designed to defend us from somebody else who would be aggressors against us."





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my fave part is when they go to Kmart, you know I thought it was weird is that where I live they stopped selling bullets in Kmarts years ago.

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