Friday morning's shootings at a Colorado showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" are simply evidence that America is "a violent nation," said Michael Moore, director of "Bowling for Coumbine," a 2002 documentary about the U.S. culture of firearms and violence that drew its title from an earlier shooting in Colorado.
When asked if he'd like to comment about the events by TheWrap, the outspoken and politically active filmmaker did not lobby for gun control. He simply replied with a one-sentence email in which he said he sees continued violence until the world "[has] its fill of us."
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Moore's email reads:
"I believe anthropologists and historians will look back on us and simply conclude that we were a violent nation, at home and abroad, but in due time human decency won out and the violence ceased, but not before many, many more had died and the world had had its fill of us."