I believe that Bowling for Columbine attempted to instal a fictitious fear in Americans. For instance, Moore told us that the U.S. has the highest death rate from the use of guns. He gave us ‘facts’ that about 11,000 deaths occur in America, while around 300 happen in Germany and from there every other country is under that number. Yet, the numbers he gave us for the countries were based off of different time periods and we don’t know what source he used for his information, also we must realize that America has a larger population than most countries. Another factor we must consider is that many of these deaths may not deal with cold blooded murder. They may have been accidents (hunting), self-protection, or possibly even those who have served for our country. For the most part, I believe that the movie was very misleading in most, if not all aspects. It’s sad that Moore tried to get his views across in a deceiving fashion, I think he may have lost a lot of respect from those who liked him.
