Bowling for Columbine Page #3

I think would have to be...

I think I made about

a good five-gallon drum of napalm.

You know, homemade napalm.

- Kids knew that you were doing this?

- Yeah.

- So you were number two, then, on the list.

- Right.

Who was number one?

I don't know. They never told me that name.

Which kinda made me mad.

- Cos you didn't make it to number one?

- I know it's kinda silly.

But I guess it would have been

kinda like an ego thing there, you know,

knowing that I was number one

at something in Oscoda,

even if it was the bomb threat list.

Do you believe it was right

to blow up the building in Oklahoma City?

- I'm not saying you did it.

- No, no, no.

Why was it blowed up? That's a good question.

Why was that building blowed up?

And who blew it up?

- But if someone did it, it would be wrong?

- Yeah.

It is wrong to take the lives of those people?

Yeah.

I use the pen,

because the pen is mightier than the sword.

But you always must keep a sword handy

for when the pen fails.

I sleep...

I sleep with a .44 Magnum under my pillow.

Come on. That's what everyone says.

Is that true?

It's true. The whole world knows that.

If we were to go and look under your pillow,

would we see a .44 Magnum?

- Yeah.

- Honestly?

Would you take us and show us right now?

He took me into his bedroom

but told the cameraman to stay out.

Sure enough,

there was a .44 Magnum under his pillow.

There it is. OK. Is it loaded?

Ay ay ay.

OK, I believe you.

Don't do that. No, don't do that.

Don't put the gun to your head!

- I'm not gonna get hurt

- This thing is loaded.

It's loaded. It's safe.

You've got to pull the trigger,

pull the hammer, and shoot it.

Put the hammer back.

No-one has a right to tell me that I can't have it.

That is protected under our Constitution.

- Where does it say a handgun is protected?

- Gun. We should...

- It doesn't say gun- It says arms-

- Arms.

- What is arms? It's not these.

- It could be a nuclear weapon.

Do you think you should have the right to have

weapons-grade plutonium here on the farm?

I don't want it.

Should you have the right to have it

if you did want it?

- That should be restricted.

- Oh, so you do believe in some restrictions?

Well, there's wackos out there.

Happiness is a warm gun

The town of Virgin, Utah,

has passed a law

requiring all residents to own guns.

When I hold you

In my arms

And I feel my finger on your trigger

I know nobody can do me no harm...

Kerry McWilliams proudly displays

the target he used to pass his shooting test.

But the thing is, he can't see it.

He's blind.

Kerry has had a love affair with guns

since he first got his hands on an M16

as a teenager.

I'm actually most comfortable with assault rifles.

Happiness

Bang bang

But don't you know that

Happiness is a warm gun, mama?

Yeah

This is a great place to raise your children.

Really great place to raise your kids.

Very close-knit community we have here.

Everybody looks out for everybody.

- Good people.

- Good people.

This just happens to be a place

where two young men

made very bad, very wrong decisions,

and there has been international notoriety

as a result of it.

Other than that,

I don't know that Littleton is a lot different

than a whole lot of other

suburban communities.

Good morning, Mr Edwards,

members of the board.

I'd like to report that I've found the perfect

location for our new corporate office -

South Metro Denver.

You can see I don't need these...

because South Metro Denver has about

the same amount of sunshine and precipitation

as southern California.

It's incredible.

You have to see it for yourselves.

How does this look, Mr Edwards?

We're south of Denver

in a community called Littleton.

And this house is pretty much

your average middle-class suburban home.

The burglar, the rapist is still here

in the neighborhood somewhere.

And so citizens sometimes think...

You know, I have people tell me all the time...

Where exactly is the burglar or rapist right now?

If I was to try and stab you

through this, right here,

you're gonna have to be really close.

- And here's the bottom line on this.

- What if I had a spear?

Now, downstairs

is where the safe room was constructed.

And this is a solid core door, a very heavy door.

And now the criminal

has to break through this door.

- You've created another barrier.

- An axe would do it.

An axe would do it.

I think that Columbine did a couple of things.

One is, it changed... it changed how we talk.

- That's the first thing.

- How's that?

For instance, if I say Columbine,

everybody knows what it means.

I don't have to explain to you that Columbine...

- What's wrong?

- Nothing. I just...

- What's wrong?

- I just...

Sometimes Columbine bothers me.

- I'll be fine. Just...

- It's OK. It's OK.

There's something um...

...something overwhelming about that kind of...

...viciousness,

that kind of predatory action,

that kind of indiscriminate...

...killing.

This facility where we're located right now,

and two other major facilities

where our employees work,

are either in or very near Littleton.

So we have over 5,000 employees

at these facilities,

quite a number of whom live in Littleton

and have children at Columbine High School.

I suppose, in one way, you could say

that what happened

at Columbine High School is a microcosm

of what happens throughout the world.

You know the signs that we see

that say "We Are Columbine?

Is that how Lockheed Martin feels?

You're the biggest employer here in Littleton,

the biggest weapons maker.

'We Are Columbine'?

I think we probably embody that spirit

that, yeah, we're all members of this community

and it behaves us to help one another

and to reach out to assist one another.

He told us that no-one in Littleton,

including Lockheed's executives,

could figure out why the boys at Columbine

had resorted to violence.

Why would kids do this?

Some of the root of that probably

has to do with their anger about various issues.

And we became aware of a program

that provides anger management training.

And so we made a $100,000 contribution

to the Jefferson County Schools

to use this training in the schools.

We hope to help both teachers and students

learn alternative ways to deal with anger.

So you don't think our kids say to themselves,

'Well, gee, Dad goes off to the factory

every day. He built missiles.

These are weapons of mass destruction.

What's the difference between that

and the mass destruction

over at Columbine High School?'

I guess I don't see that connection,

that specific connection,

because the missiles that you're talking about

were built and designed to defend us

from somebody else

who would be aggressors against us.

Societies and countries and governments

do things that annoy one another.

But we have to learn

to deal with that annoyance, or that anger,

or that frustration, in appropriate ways.

We don't get irritated with somebody

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