
Bowling for Columbine
The National Rifle Association
has produced a film
which you are sure to find of great interest.
Let's look at it.
It was the morning of April 20th 1999,
and it was pretty much
like any other morning in America.
The farmer did his chores.
The milkman made his deliveries.
The President bombed another country
whose name we couldn't pronounce.
Out in Fargo, North Dakota,
Kerry McWilliams went on his morning walk.
Back in Michigan, Mrs Hughes welcomed
her students for another day of school.
And out in a little town in Colorado,
two boys went bowling at six in the morning.
Yes, it was a typical day
in the United States of America.
May I help you?
Yeah, I'm here to open up an account.
- OK, what type of account would you like?
- Um...
- I want the account where I get the free gun.
- OK.
I'd spotted an ad in the local Michigan paper
that said if you opened an account
the bank would give you a gun.
You do a CD and we'll hand you a gun.
that you can look at.
Once we do the background check
and everything, it's yours to go.
OK. Right, well,
that's the account I'd like to open.
We have a vault in which, at all times,
we keep at least 500 firearms.
- 500 of these you have in your vault?
- In our vault.
- We have to do a background check.
- At the bank here?
- At the bank, which is a licensed firearm dealer.
- You're a bank and a licensed firearm dealer?
What do I put for race?
White, or Caucasian, or...?
- Caucasian.
- Caucasian.
I knew you were gonna make me spell that.
- Cau... ca... sian. Is that right?
- Yes.
Thank you.
I don't think that's the part
they're gonna be worried about.
"Have you ever been adjudicated
mentally defective
or been committed to a mental institution?"
I've never been committed.
What does that mean, have I ever been
adjudicated mentally defective?
- It would be something involved with a crime.
- Oh, OK.
So if I'm just normally mentally defective,
but not criminal...
- There you go, Mike.
- OK, thank you very much. Wow!
I have one personally.
- That's a nice action.
- It is, and it's a straight shooter, let me tell you.
Wow! Sweet!
Do you think it's a little dangerous
handing out guns in a bank?
Some people say
that bowling alleys got big lanes
Got big lanes, got big lanes
Some people say
that bowling alleys all look the same
Look the same
Look the same
Everybody's coming home
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them...
Guns ho!
Each gun makes lots of battle sounds.
Just press the trigger and listen.
That sounds like a gun battle.
Is it real?
Looks like real.
And it sounds like real.
Right. The Sound-O-Power
Military and Western rifles by Marx.
This was my first gun.
I couldn't wait to go outside
and shoot up the neighborhood.
Those were the days.
I was born in Michigan
And I wish and wish again
That I was back in the town where I was born
By the time I was a teenager,
I was such a good shot,
I won the National Rifle Association's
marksman award.
You see, I grew up in Michigan,
a gun-lover's paradise.
And so did this man,
Oscar-winning actor
and president of the National Rifle Association,
Mr Charlton Heston.
We come from a state
where everyone loves to go hunting.
Even the dogs.
There were actually
two of the hunters at camp.
They thought
they'd get a few pictures of the dog
dressed up as a hunter,
to kinda just have some fun around camp.
And one of the guys had the idea,
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