Bowling For Columbine !?!?!

[speedballjunky]

http://www.revoketheoscar.com/

[Stupi]

Gotta agree here... Worcester is no fun... I really regret ending up at WPI... every day.

[goat]

Personally,
I am aware of Micheal Moore's retarded standpoint on firearms and the last thing I am going to do is pay to see any of his movies, if they come on HBO I might watch a little of them but from what I heard he makes anyone who likes to hunt or enjoys firearms out to look like an stupid hillbilly.........He'll get none of my $.
Goat

[speedballjunky]

sorry.. im kinda new at this.

No... its cool, I pulled the handle on it too soon. Leaving it - carry on! cphilip

[~WarpedRT#2~]

It's supposed to be a documentary. I dont know how close this comes to a real documentary, but I dont mind paintball being in it.

[raehl]

Then you missed Moore's point.

It wasn't that guns are bad. He spent a considerable amount of time pointing out that other countries have just as many guns as we do but somehow manage to not shoot each other.

His point was that the American culture is one of fear.


- Chris

[Restola]

Long thread about this movie over in "friendly".

[breg]

In regards to Bowling for Columbine:

I guess that the moral of the tail is that you should never rely on the judgment of pop culture and someone who is playing to the masses.

Comming from an area of the country with a a very high ratio of fire arms to people, and where even the youngest kid could outshoot most adults, I've devloped a healthy fear and respect of just what fire arms are capable of doing. Fear, that knowing that evertime I pick up a weapon there is the potential for the loss of life. Respect for the fact that a weapon is no more than a tool and that a tool's intent is only as good or as evil as its user.
A lot of these thing that I have learned from handeling real firearms I apply to our fair sport of paintball. For example, I always treat every marker as if it is loaded. So, Unless I have personally unloaded and cleared it myself, I never removed the barrel blocking device, unless in an approved area. I never point it at anyone unless on a field and I am sure that the target is wearing the proscribed safety equipment; I even go so far as to make sure that the barrel is pointed straight down when I am in a shop handing a display marker back to the sales rep.
My main argument with the movie is that Michael Moore has protrayed the basic law abiding gun owner of this counrty and a violence crazed psychopath, and as I have stated before that guns are only as evil as the person handeling it. Guns are not the problem. Trying to remove fire arms from our society similar to a quote from the movie platoon: "You're tryin' to cure the headache by cuttin' off the head."
And the Idea that paintball is a sport that is leading the nation's youth astray is about as true as the moon being made of green cheese. Ok, yes, I will give the opponents of paintball the yes: Our sport does resemble armed combat. Face it, we have two or more sides squaring off with things that shoot projectiles at the other team. OK, so in that sense, then water guns, cap guns, the dart guns that shoot the little rubber suction cup darts, the old nerf guns, laser tag, plastic annoying loud guns, and water baloons (Think of throwing a gernade) are just as, if not more evil than paintball. Some, are designed to only operate if the are cocked, armed, etc in the same manner as the real life fire arms that they are designed after.
Screw it, I'm going to go play Doom for a while.... Take that Michael Moore. After wards, I'm not going to kill anyone. I think I'll eat a breakfast burrito.

[Miscue]

A thread just like this has been locked before... don't need a repeat.