ok, and as I suspected it was low budget.
I'm canadian. I remember having dinner with some americans in flordia and havig them ask me if the stuff about canadians not locking their doors was true. I didn't quite understand what he was askign me, as I always lock my door when I'm leaving my house for any real amount of time (ie several hours) - for insurance purposes. Now after seeing the movie I realize that what he was really asking me is if I lock my door when I'm inside of my house, as this is what Michael moore did - he went upto several houses during the day in Canada and OF COURSE they were open cause the people were home. I don't think I've locked the door when I'm inside my house EVER. I couldn't imagine living with that kind of fear every day and I feel sorry for Americans that live like that.
When I lived in apartments when I was younger and poor and in bad neighborhoods I never locked the door during the day so long as I was home - maybe at night though...but that was mostly to keep people from bardging in when I was sleeping that wanted to go party or such. Locking the door is an alien concept for me when I'm inside a house. I remember being 5 years old and visiting my Grandma for the night and she would make sure she bolted the doors and even then I'd look at her like she was crazy and everyone in the family made fun of her because she did that, but even she always had the house open during the day.
The one point I felt he was wrong on concerning guns in Canada is that YES, Canadians have PILES of guns, but the VAST majority of those guns are rifles and shotguns. They are everywhere and easy to get. Most all of my friends have rifles and shotguns.
BUT
Automtic weapons are VERY difficult to obtain here as are handguns. Mr Moore made it sound liek all canadians had equal amounts of handguns and automatic waepons. NOT TRUE. Just about the only place you'll find people with those weapons is at gun clubs (surprize surprise, that's where he found them)and they have VERY strict rules on how to handle them - psycho rules with stiff penalities. Sure some illegial ones are around, but VERY few, and I mean VERY few. And the ammo for them is hard to get as well unless it's a 22 caliber handgun or something like that that uses the same ammo as a common rifle.
Take away the guns that are designed to kill people (handguns and automatic weapons) and people don't get killed. Very simple but hardly ANYONE ever sees it like that. I have a criminology degree too so I have a little bit of knowledge in that subject as well. - and I AGREE with the canadian policy. Rifles and shotguns are cool and fun and more than adiquate for home protection and defending yourself against a mob or such, but no one really has a need for automatic weapons and handguns cept maybe for police and soldiers.
