Bowling For Columbine History Essay

Michael Moore, the esteemed producer and director for the award winning documentary Bowling for Columbine has done nothing but lie and deceive you. Moore tries to build a repour with the viewers in the start of the film, making him out to be an ordinary working class man. However Moore is a multi-millionaire and send his children to a private school. He knows nothing of the struggles of the working class. However how have his lies translated into his film?
In Bowling for Columbine there is an animated short showing the “history” of America. This short was created to create a link in the viewer’s head that the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) are in essence working together. Claiming that there is an odd coincidence that the NRA was founded at the same time the KKK became an illegal terrorist organisation. However this is opposite to what the real facts are. In reality the NRA was strongly opposed to the actions of the KKK as that the NRA were founded …show more content…
In the town of Littleton after the mass shooting at columbine high school. Moore makes the NRA out to be the “bad guys” asking how they could be so insulting to hold a gun rally just after a tragedy such as this has happened? Well in actual fact the meeting that was scheduled to take place in Littleton was an annual NRA meeting which the place and date of this meeting had been fixed and planned years in advance. But why didn’t they just cancel it? Well that would be because in New York state law the NRA must hold an annual meeting and if they were to cancel they would have to give ten days’ notice in advance. However in light of this tragedy the NRA cancelled all seminars shows and exhibits that were to be held and, at the event did the bare minimum of what they had to do and then packed up and left, in order to disrupt the grieving populace as little as possible. However Moore’s facts about the NRA weren’t the only ones that were