One of the most compelling criticisms of gun culture in the US and the way that action films perpetuate a culture obsessed with arming itself is Michael Moore's documentary Bowling For Columbine. The movie takes some liberties with regards to filmmaking, but overall it's a ringing indictment of the use of firearms in real life. Amongst the many compelling sequences is one where Moore and a handful of survivors from the Columbine school shooting attempting to return some of the bullets that remained in their body to the supermarket chain that sold them. But wait, they still had bullets inside their bodies? What's up with that? In almost every action film going, somebody getting shot will necessitate emergency surgery, digging the bullets out of them. Which is a bad idea, because if they were non-lethal, embedding themselves in a body the hot bullets cauterise wounds and stop you from bleeding out.
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