Bowling for columbine
(pre-viewing activities)
THE FACTS :
http://63.147.65.175/news/colreport/Columbinerep/Pages/INTRO_TEXT2.htm : A report from Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Gun rights vs Gun Control :
The NRA : http://www.nra.org/
http://www.nrahq.org/history.asp
2nd Amendment of the US Constitution : http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html
A different point of view on the right to own a gun : http://resurgent.virtualave.net/L-secondamendment.htm
Facts and figures : http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/gun_safety/gunfacts.htm
-8- write the corresponding figures in the table :
|Total number of guns in the United States (§1) | |
| Number of handguns (§1) | |
|Firearm-related deaths in 1997 (§2) | |
| firearm-related suicides (§2) | |
| firearm-related homicides (§2) | |
| Undetermined / unintentional firearm related deaths (§2) | |
| Americans killed in the Korean War (§2) | |
| Americans killed in the Vietnam War (§2) | |
|Number of people killed by handguns in other countries in 1996 :