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Michael Moore: Racial Fear Drives Gun Obsession

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December 22, 2012

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"Friday night, on the heels of last week's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the left-leaning Current TV is planning to air progressive filmmaker Michael Moore's ten-year-old Columbine documentary "Bowling for Columbine," with Moore revisiting the film to accuse American gun-owners of being motivated by racial fears.

Gun ownership, Moore said, "cuts down to the heart of our race problem that we still haven't resolved."*

In his award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, re-airing on Current TV, Michael Moore suggests that the American gun obsession is driven by racial fear, specifically, of African Americans. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) break it down.

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