I need to answer some questions for the movie Bowling for Columbine?!
Question: Other than gun violence, what other forms of vilence does moore point out and examples. when young people commit crimes who is to blame, Moore says U.S media is not reliably reporting what happens in the world, agree or disagree, what other factors lead to violence in society? Media provokes fear into audience agree or disagree.
Answers: Other than gun violence, what other forms of vilence does moore point out and examples. when young people commit crimes who is to blame, Moore says U.S media is not reliably reporting what happens in the world, agree or disagree, what other factors lead to violence in society? Media provokes fear into audience agree or disagree.
From what I remember gun violence was the main one he covered, maybe game violence too.
When young people commit crimes, he addressed that it was a number of factors, but the main thing was just their poor economic background and lack of moral help form those around them. Also, the simplisity of walking into somewhere like K-mart and buying a gun, and societies pressure and glorification of guns (NRA, video games, media, etc...) All help attribute to youth commiting gun violence (among others...) It seems to me with youth violence, they see guns as an easy way out or solution. Like 'Oh well if I put a gun to his head, he won't tease me any more' or 'If i have a gun, they will respect me' or 'If I kill myself, all my problems will go away', etc....This can be a cause of guns glorification, in the media (not saying its all their fault) that makes kids want to use guns to assess the feeling of power and control in their turbulent lives. All of us, at one point or another , had tough social times growing up, it's life. Hell, kids and teens can be some of the meanest SOBs on the planet, but it's up to adults and teachers to teach kids that THESE TIMES WILL PASS. Grade school is not forever, high school is not forever, you will not be the geeky nobody forever, and more then likely everyone else won't be the beautiful, popular jock or cheerleader forever, you will grow up and get out into the real world and realize none of that matters. So it's up to adults tell kids to just be strong and these times will pass. It's also up to the kid and teen to know the difference between right and wrong.....
Agree. The media is controlled by few, mostly conglomerates, therefore 90% of the time it's filtered or altered to fit a particular agenda or bias to protect those who are in control of that media outlet. Also, information fed to the news is bias or not the whole truth and that's for everybody, liberal and conservative. For example, how do we know all the information told to us about the war, good or bad, is the whole truth? Isn't most of that told through White House press correspondents, whose jobs depend on how the war is spun? If it's good, how do we know they are telling the truth? If it's bad, how bad is it really are they doing damage control? and so on and so forth.......
What I liked about Bowling for Columbine is that it briefly looked at other cultures and their gun violence and their reasons for gun violence. All societies have guns, violent games, movies, music, violent histories, poverty... But America still has the highest gun violence death rate in the whole world (over 11,000 deaths/year) Moore blamed that on the media and advertising way of using fear and propaganda to scare us in a way to control our everyday lives. This fear, whether we know it or not, envokes us to use violence (guns or whatever) against others, for sometimes nothing at all. All because we see them as an easy way out of a problem (poverty, confrontation, etc....). The NRA uses the 2nd amendment (written some 100 years ago) to legitimize guns for all as protection, but in this day and age, guns kill more lives then they do saving them. And they are just as problematic when kids get a hold of them and kill other kids. He's more so saying that with all the media glorifying guns and using fear to control you, you have to take it upon your self to weight the necessity of having guns. If you don't need them, then don't have them. And if you do need them for whatever reason (maybe your a cop), make sure your kids know not to go near it or touch it. Teach them that violence is not the answer to solving their problems, it just compounds them. Great way to do that is to lead by example and get rid of the guns...........