He also dismisses this thesis when comparing the rates with Canada, country
in which almost everybody owns a gun and the amount of deaths is but a
fraction compared with the States. In Canada they leave their doors open, in
the States they double lock them and add alarm systems, people are
frightened, media want people to panic.
> Right, and most of that carnage--both sides of the gun--is male.
>
> There are lots of reasons for all that bloodshed, but clearly a major one
> is that guns allow for impulse-killing and for killing at a distance.
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 11:02 PM 1/9/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >I have these statistics which were made clear in the movie:
> >the yearly total at the time of "Columbine's" filming is 11,217 deaths
with
> >guns, compared with 381 for Germany, 68 for the United Kingdom and 39 for
> >Japan.
> >And I consider myself American, even if I am Italo-American. Therefore it
is
> >my problem why Americans kill Americans, and this is the question
> >insistently asked by Moore, the director. No answer is given.
> >
> > > I appreciate that we all have reason for anger, but Americans don't
kill
> > > mainly American women. I wish I could say that we're far too
democratic
> >for
> > > that, but in fact Americans mostly kill American males. That, at any
rate,
> > > is what the statistics I've read would indicate.
> > >
> > > Or do you have statistics to the contrary?
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > At 10:45 PM 1/9/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >I recommend by Micheal Moore: Bowling for Columbine - a film-d'essai
> >(just
> > > >watched it) in which the director is the interviewer and poses a
> >fundamental
> > > >question:
> > > >Why do Americans kill other Americans?
> > > >and maybe a little further, having read Rebecca Seifferle's last
mail,
> >why
> > > >do Americans kill mainly American women?
> > > >For those who haven't seen it yet, here is a link of quite a good
review.
> > > >
> > > >http://www.examiner.com/movies/default.jsp?story=X1018BOWLINGw
> > >
>
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