Why do 11,000 people die in America each year? Talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. But are we that much different from a number of different nations? What sets us apart? How do we become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts of violence? This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and spirit of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to possess the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. Take a peek at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old, Bowling for Columbine is really a travel through America, through our past, expecting to discover our search for happiness is so riddled with violence.