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Title: Leaves a big, interesting unanswered question
Review: I thought the ending, the interview with Charlton Heston, required courage but my German wife thought that Heston was too old and senile to be manhandled that way. I thought he deserved it. Moore raises the big question but doesn't answer it: Swiss and Canadians have guns and hunt (so do Norwegians), Canadians are about as big gun nuts as US citizens, but Swiss and Canadinas don't kill each other (and Norway has extremely low crime), so why not? What is it that makes so many Americans trigger happy and violent? For a possible answer, see George Lakoff's "Moral Politics", which traces the 50/50 religious/secular split in America to two different prevailing sets of family values. And, surprise, surprise, it's not the secular people who are promote violence, it's the religious ones, the same group that gave us the Iraq war of aggression.
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