Editing Bowling for Columbine (section)

===Bowling===
The film's title refers to the story that [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]]—the two students responsible for the [[Columbine High School massacre]]—attended a school [[bowling]] class at 6:00 AM on the day they committed the attacks at school, that commenced at 11:17 AM. Later investigations showed that this was based on mistaken recollections, and Glenn Moore of the Golden Police Department concluded that they were absent from school on the day the attack took place.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cullen |first=Dave |date=April 16, 2005 |title=A Little Unfinished Business on Bowling and Columbine |url=http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/2005/04/16.html#a1561 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715233749/http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/2005/04/16.html |archive-date=2011-07-15 |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |via=Boulder Daily Camera}}</ref>

Moore also incorporates the concept of recreational bowling into the film in other ways. For example, the [[Michigan Militia]] use bowling pins for their target practice. When interviewing former classmates of the two boys, Moore notes that the students took a bowling class instead of [[Physical education class|physical education]]. He suggests that this might have very little educational value and the people he interviews generally agree, noting how Harris and Klebold led introverted lifestyles and had careless attitudes towards the game, and that nobody thought twice about it. Moore questions whether the school system is responding to the real needs of students or if they are reinforcing fear. Moore also interviews two young residents of [[Oscoda, Michigan|Oscoda]], [[Michigan]]. Moore suggests a [[culture of fear]] created by the government and the media leads Americans to arm themselves, to the advantage of gun-making companies. Moore suggests that bowling could have been just as responsible for the attacks on the school as Marilyn Manson, or even President [[Bill Clinton]], who launched [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia|bombing attacks]] on [[Serbia and Montenegro|Serbia]] at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hastings |first=Michael |date=January 21, 2004 |title=Wesley & Me |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2004/01/wesley_me.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113074533/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2004/01/wesley_me.html |archive-date=2012-01-13 |access-date=2011-10-14 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref>