Bowling for Columbine

It was the morning  of April 20th 1999 a typical american morning. I had spotted an account in the paper which stated that if you open an account in the North Country bank, the bank will give you a free gun. By the time I was a teenager I  was so good I got the national riffle association. I grew up in Michigan, a gun lovers paradise, that is a state where everyone loves to go hunting. A place where you can buy bullets at the local barbers shop.
''You don't need gun control, what you need is bullet control. Thats right, I think all bulets should cost 5000 dollars. Cuz if a bullet cost 5000 dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders. People would think before they killed somebody with a bullet that costs 5000 dollars."
Not far from where I grew up is training ground for the Michigan militia. The Michigan militia became known around the world when on April 19th 1995 two guys who lived in Michigan who had attended a militia meetings, Timothy Mcvay and Terry Nichols blew up the federal building in Oklahoma  city. Killing 168 people. The Michigan Militia wanted everyone to know that they were nothing like Mcvay and Nichols. Here people believe its an american tradition, if you are not armed, you are not responsible. Who is going to defend your kids? The Michigan militia say that they  they are here to help and are not the boogie men which they are made to be. They say that they are the kind of guy who somebody would like to have as their neighbour, if they need help. They call themselves concerned citizens.
An example: This is James Nichols (the brother of Terry Nichols) he graduated from high school in the district next to mine (narrator). McVay and the Nichols brothers made practice bombs for the Oklahoma city. Thierry and James were both arrested in connection to the bombing. Officials charged James, who was at the hearing and Terry, who wasn't, with conspiring to possess and make small bombs. Terry Nichols was convicted and received a life sentence. Timothy Mcvay was executed, however the charges were dropped later on. On James' farm the police found blasting caps, dynamite fuse, black powder etc. however he claims that these are just normal firearm things to own and are in no way related to the bombing.
There are two other kids who live in Oscoda in Michigan, across the bay of James Nichols' farm. Eric Herris who would later on go to commit the massacre at the Columbine high school in Colorado.