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What bothers him is that we so frequently shoot them at one another. Canada has a similar ratio of guns to citizens, but a 10th of the shooting deaths.

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What makes us kill so many times more fellow citizens than is the case in other developed nations? No doubt this is true, but Moore has moved on from his early fondness for guns. Despite paranoia that has all but sidetracked the childhood custom of trick or treat, Moore points out that in fact no razor blades have ever been found in Halloween apples.

He returns several times to Columbine High School, at one point showing horrifying security-camera footage of the massacre. And Columbine inspires one of the great confrontations in a career devoted to radical grandstanding. Moore introduces us to two of the students wounded at Columbine, both still with bullets in their bodies. He explains that all of the Columbine bullets were freely sold to the teenage killers by Kmart, at 17 cents apiece.

And then he takes the two victims to Kmart headquarters to return the bullets for a refund. The movie is a mosaic of Moore confrontations and supplementary footage. One moment that cuts to the core is from a standup routine by Chris Rock , who suggests that our problem could be solved by simply increasing the price of bullets—taxing them like cigarettes.

Heston is equally unhelpful when asked if he thinks it was a good idea for him to speak at an NRA rally in Denver 10 days after Columbine. He seems to think it was all a matter of scheduling. Moore cannot single out a villain to blame for this fact, because it seems to emerge from a national desire to be armed. At one point, he visits a bank that is giving away guns to people who open new accounts.

Not at all.