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Michael Moore: "So you don't think our kids say to themselves, 'Dad goes off to the factory every day, he builds missiles of mass destruction.' What's the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?" McCollum: I guess I don't see 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."

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Interviewer: What's your view on high school? Male student: Uh, I love it. Uh, I learn, I get picked on by bastards who hate me, and the principal's a dick. Interviewer: All right, what causes school violence? Male student: Uh, him. [Points to an overweight boy sitting nearby]

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Nicole Shleif: I'm Nicole Shleif. Amanda Lamontagne: And I'm Amanda Lamontagne. Michael Moore: And you went to Columbine? Nicole Shleif: Yes. Michael Moore: And you were with Eric and Dylan? In their class? Nicole Shleif: Yeah, We were in their bowling class. Michael Moore: In their bowling class? Nicole Shleif: Yes. Michael Moore: What's bowling class? Nicole Shleif: Just an elective you can take for a gym credit. Michael Moore: Where's the educational value of this, though? Nicole Shleif: Um... I guess there isn't really any. Amanda Lamontagne: No, there's not. Nicole Shleif: I learned how to bowl a lot better, that's for sure. Michael Moore: What were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold like? Amanda Lamontagne: Weird. Michael Moore: Yeah? Amanda Lamontagne: I mean, not very social. Nicole Shleif: I didn't really know who they were. Amanda Lamontagne: Not very social, just kinda kept to themselves. Michael Moore: How good a bowlers were Eric and Dylan? Nicole Shleif: When we played them, a

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Michael Moore: Where are you supposed to be right now? Man 1: School. Man 2: School. Woman: School. Michael Moore: Aren't you worried about what you're not learning? Man 1: Nah, I'm mostly helping everybody else in the class. Then I barely get to do my work. Michael Moore: How about you? You're not worried about your education? Woman: Well, I've got the textbook. Michael Moore: Why do you think we have so many, uh... gun murders in America? Man 2: Uh... I have no idea. People must hate each other or something. Michael Moore: Oh, you mean Canadians don't hate each other? Man 2: Well, we do but we don't go to the point of shooting somebody just to get revenge. Michael Moore: What do you do? Man 2: I don't know. Tease them, maybe. Make fun of them, ridicule them. Throw eggs at them. Woman: Every time I turn on the TV in the States, it's always about a murder here, a gunfight, hostile position... I just think the States, their view of things is fighting. That's how they resolve everything.

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Michael Moore: What about nuclear weapons? Should you be able to have weapons-grade plutonium? Michael Moore: Oh, so you do think there should be restrictions. James Nichols: Well...there's wackos out there.

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I sleep at night with a gun under my pillow.

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I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you must always keep the sword handy for when the pen fails.