Michael Moore takes aim at the ever-increasing gun violence in America.

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Michael Moore, the writer, director, producer and featured interviewer for Bowling for Columbine (a title best explained by the film) traverses North America searching for an answer to one question: Why do guns kill so many people in America? As he talks to the Michigan Militia, Marilyn Manson, Charlton Heston, survivors of the shooting at Columbine High School, James Nichols (that's the brother of convicted Oklahoma…

This is a phenomenal movie. One thing that Michael Moore is unafraid to do -- and which really resonates with an enormous audience -- is tell the truth. His take is very populist. It's the take of the American working people who are not represented by our leaders. And the politics are delivered with such warmth and humor. It's entertaining at the same time that it's cutting, and that's a tribute to him as a filmmaker.

TOM MORELLO OF RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
(October 22, 2003)

Heston is back, as the NRA's mouthpiece, getting shanghaied at home by Michael Moore in his Oscar-winning doc on America's obsession with guns, an obsession played out during the shootings at Columbine. Some think Moore pushes too hard on Heston, visibly infirm and battling Alzheimer's. But pushing hard, with an acid wit that can be condescending, is Moore's style. In return, we get a film that bristles with provocation. The DVD also includes reams of extras, mostly of Moore justifying his…