“Bowling for Columbine” quotes

“We need to control the bullets. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars. If a bullet cost five thousand dollars, there'd be no more innocent bystanders. People would think before they killed somebody.”
Chris Rock - Himself

“I'm a bad guy because I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who's a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I'd like to think me, but I'm going to go with the President.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“If more guns make people safer, then America would be one of the safest countries in the world. It isn't. It's the opposite.”
Canadian - Himself

“- John Nichols: When the government turns tyrannical, it is your duty to overthrow it.
- Michael Moore: Why not use Gandhi's way? He didn't have guns, and he beat the British Empire.”
John Nichols - Himself
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control.”
Chris Rock - Himself

“What is so different about Americans? Are we homicidal in nature? Because in Europe and Australia, most other free-world countries they don't have this. They don't have people who snap and go on murderous rampages.”
Tom Mauser - Father of Victim

“How many people are killed by guns each year? In Germany; 381. In France; 255. In Canada; 165. In the United Kingdom; 68. In Australia; 65. In Japan; 39. In the United States; 11,127.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“The American people are conditioned by network TV, by local news, to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than they actually are.”
Arthur A. Busch - Himself

“The two by-products of that whole tragedy were, violence in entertainment, and gun control. And how perfect that that was the two things that we were going to talk about with the upcoming election.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“Our children get turned into little monsters, but who's to blame?”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“My favorite statistic is discovering that the murder rate had gone down by 20%. The coverage that is, how many murders are on the evening news it went up by 600%.”
Barry Glassner - Himself

“There were a lot of things that I didn't know after the World Trade Center attack. But one thing was clear: whether it was before or after September 11th, a public that's this out of control with fear should not have a lot of guns or ammo laying around.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“In George Bush's America the poor were not a priority. And after September 11th correcting America's social problems took a back seat to fear, panic and a new set of priorities.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you must always keep a sword handy for when the pen fails.”
John Nichols - Himself

“The media wants to turn it into fear. There's floods, there's AIDS, there's murder, cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath they're not going to talk to you, if you have pimples, the girl's not going to fuck you, and it's just this campaign of fear, and consumption, and that's what I think it's all based on, the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“In your mind, somebody might break into your house to harm you or your family. What does that person look like?”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“Crime rates have been dropping, dropping, dropping. Fear of crime has been going up, up, up. It doesn't make any sense. But it makes perfect sense when you see what we're hearing from politicians and seeing in the news media.”
Barry Glassner - Himself

“I left the Heston estate atop Beverly Hills and walked back into the real world. To an America living and breathing in fear where gun sales are now at an all record high.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“I think it's easy to throw my face on the TV, because in the end, I'm a poster boy for fear. Because I represent what everyone is afraid of, because I say and do whatever I want.”

Marilyn Manson - Himself

“- Michael Moore: If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?
- Marilyn Manson: I wouldn't say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself
Marilyn Manson - Himself

Every time that I bring up comparisons with other free-world countries, what I hear is: "Our culture is so different. We're so different". They have violent video games, they have violent movies, they have alienated youth. They, like us, don't have prayer in schools. What is so radically different? What is it about us?
Tom Mauser - Father of Victim

“The media, the corporations, the politicians have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“Something is wrong in this country when a child can grab a gun so easily, and shoot a bullet into the middle of a child's face. A weapon like that is not used to kill deer. It has no useful purpose. It is time to address this problem.”
Tom Mauser - Father of Victim