[HPFGU-OTChatter] Amanda --->Cold dead hands (or a lawyer), was Bowling for Columbine

[Amanda Geist]

Amanda :
>
> I haven't been following this, nor seen what seems to be something in
> *excessively* bad taste, but even so..

>
> Isn't that pretty much like declaring Harry Potter to be evil without
having
> read it? How can you possibly form a reasonable opinion on it if you
haven't
> seen it? This is an honest question - what are you basing that opinion on?

I never said it was a reasonable opinion. My comment was a prequel to a
response to what seemed a corollary anyway, just to let people know I was
not up on the topic. My transitory, ephemeral, not terribly relevant to my
post comment was based on the fact that "Bowling for Columbine" sounds like
a Saturday Night Live skit done in rather poor taste. Just on the face of
it.

> It is about the high incidence of death in America caused by gunshot
wounds
> and tries to understand why that is. That seems to me to be a subject that
> deserves some kind of attention. Especially since it isn't purely due to
the
> number of guns floating around in America (although why there is even any
> debate about banning some of them I do not understand, hunting rifles,
fine
> I understand that, even simple handguns, although I would never want one
in
> *my* house, but some of the high powered weaponry people ar allowed to own
> is just ridiculous). canada his a high gun ownership level (logical in a
> country that big and open) and so does Switzerland but they don't have
> anywhere near the murder rate.

There is some serious inquiry called Bowling for Columbine? Really? Just
when you think life can't get any weirder.

~Amanda