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In reply to the discussion: Do you think violent movies, TV, and video games contribute NOTHING to the carnage in this country? [View all]0rganism
(23,945 posts)It's "American exceptionalism" in reverse. Other countries that produce and consume media content at least as violent as what we get here have discovered ways to distinguish between fantasy and reality that we, apparently, can't figure out. Why is this society so backward and inept that we are impressionable in ways that others are not? Are our fragile little minds so incapable of handling certain ideas that we must contemplate censorship where others do not? Why are we all so immature?
I'd prefer to go back to what you said at the start of your OP, let's start by improving regulation of the commerce of firearms and see how much that helps with the violence. One thing is certain, and I think we could agree on this point: it is much easier for our citizenry to commit fatal acts of violence than it ought to be.