Kelli Vogel

     Today during class, we went over the research paper that is due March 2nd. There is a checklist with due dates on google classroom  to make sure everyone stays on task for example our first due date is on January 30th. For this day we need to know what documentary we are going to watch so Mr. Rivers will get a good idea on what our research paper is about. After talking about this Mr. Rivers wrote the words Bowling for Columbine on the board and then we were asked to talk to our group members on what we thought it was about. We discovered that it was a major school shooting in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. Then we proceed to watch a documentary on this topic. As we were watching this we had to answer two questions. The first question was, What argument does the film make? The second question was HOW does the director support that claim? The documentary is longer than an hour so we only so a short clip of it today. We watched a man walk into a bank located in Michigan with a flier that stated, “Free gun, if you open up a bank account with us.” The man actually opened up a bank account and was forced to have a background check because it's the law. We concluded class going over the two questions. The arguments that were present in film were, it’s too simple for people to get guns and some people are way to reckless to have a gun in their hands. For the second question we stated that the director points out issues with the process, he walks out with a gun in his hand, along with the fact that the bank uses the guns to advertise. The picture below helps you get a better understanding of what we watched on the documentary today in class. This was the exact picture that we saw on the film today.