Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Arthur A. Busch: Self - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan

Quotes 

• Barry Glassner - Author of 'The Culture of Fear' : My favorite statistic, in all the research I did, discovered 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%.

  Arthur A. Busch - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan : The American people are conditioned by network TV, by local news, to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than they actually are. For example here in this community crime has decreased every year for the past eight years. Yet gun ownership, particularly handgun ownership, is on the increase.

  Barry Glassner - Author of 'The Culture of Fear' : Crime rates have been dropping, dropping, dropping. Fear of crime has been going up, up, up. How can that be possible? 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.