Why are Americans so violent?????????

[VballPlayer]

Just was listening to the radio this morning. There was this guy on there named Michael Moore, he is a film maker and he has a documentary film out about the rise of violence in the United States. It was very disturbing to hear how high the murder rate is here in the US compared to other countries. It is not only disturbing it is alarming. The movie is called Bowling for Colombine. What he is attempting to do is get some answers why the US is so violent. Last year there were 11,000 people murdered in the United States, Canada had 100. He thought that there has to be a correlation between guns and murder rate. Well, when he traveled to Canada he found out that more than half of Canadian households have guns in them, but then why such a low murder rates compared to the US. Why are Americans so prone to kill instead of talking out their differences? How come such a similar country as Canada can have such a low murder rates and the US have such a high murder rate? It is even more disturbing to here how low the murder rates are in Europe and Japan compared to ours. Cities like Washington DC had more murders in a year than most countries in the world. Why is that I wonder? Canadians watch the same TV; they play the same violent video games, the listen to the same Marilynn Manson and Ice Tea CDs. Why are they so more civilized when it comes to not picking up a weapon and murdering someone? Before you say well we have so many more people in the United States our murder rate per capita is still something like 20 times that of Canada (cannot remember the exact figure) Anyway, I am going to check out this movie, I heard it is great and I also heard Charlton Heston makes a fool out of himself and the NRA had better get another spokes person.

 

[Bullit]

We are civilized and you are barbarians.

Plus our laws forbid guns to have triggers.
All gun-related deaths occur when someone is beat about the head with one.

Or if the barrel is sharpened, transforming it into a spear.

 

[knight69]

because BOYS like flashman get sooooooo upset at every little tiny thing. its a shame they dont know where the ignore button is!!!!!!!!

 

[WODIN]

I watched the trailer for his new flick, "Bowling for Columbine" and in it...A bank gave him a rifle for opening a checking account, he goes "Now don't you think it's stupid to give someona gun in a bank?"...I rolled.

Plus I loved the line..."Thank you for not shooting me."

You have to see the flick.

 

[2Thick]

Michael Moore is a great filmaker.

 

[KHMER ROGUE]

http://www.gangsofnewyork.com

America was born in the Streets!!!!!!

 

[HappyScrappy]

I'm likely moving this summer to a place where they don't have guns.
I'm more likely to get stabbed.

hard to snipe someone with a knife.

 

[2Thick]

I'm likely moving this summer to a place where they don't have guns.
I'm more likely to get stabbed.

hard to snipe someone with a knife.

What about the knife throwers?

 

[HappyScrappy]

What about the knife throwers?

I'd be very interested in meeting the guy that can throw a knife accurately for 250 feet.

 

[VballPlayer]

http://www.gangsofnewyork.com

America was born in the Streets!!!!!!

So were most countries. The British were said to have ruled the world by the point of a gun barrel for over 300 years, but they have an extremely low murder rate, Belfast where there has been fighting in the streets just recently is a safer place to live than the most United States cities. Japan was a country ran by battling warlords but they have a murder rate in the low teens. He address this in the movie also how most countries had a violent and tumultuous past but they seemed have grown out of it but the US has not. So the argument that America was born on the streets holds not water, it has to be something else. Why, do you think that is?