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“If more guns make people safer then America would be one of the safest places in the world, but it is the opposite.” The quote was from Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine; in Moore’s film he tries to discover why and what makes Americans so violent. He takes many different approaches in trying to find out the truth; Moore interviews people like the National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston to shock rocker Marilyn Manson. He came across many different causes as to why we are so violent, but two stood out the most to me. The first cause seemed to be that people are taking the Second Amendment to the extreme. They have taken the “right to bear arms” and turned it into an excuse to keep a loaded gun in every room of the house. People have eliminated the middle man, being the police, and taken the law into their own hands. They are claiming that it is an American tradition and responsibility to be armed. Their argument is that if you are not armed you are not being responsible. In Virgin, Utah ordinance #2000-06-12 state