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Originally Posted by billethkid
I was attempting to be at the general level. On your specific, OK ban all the what ever makes y'all happy...assault, semi automatic, high capacty, etc, etc, etc. accomplish them all or at least what ever it is that will make gun control advocates happy. And let's assume y'all get all ye seek.
My point was the violence exposure will be the same. The results will be the same.....when we allow training (my preferred wording) of youth in the manner of and lack of emotion of killing, murdering, dis-membering, etc......all the changed gun laws are not going to affect the incidence of tragedy. What will be accomplished is removal of one means of doing the deed.
We are talking about a very small percent of even the "trained" to accept killing crowd....the facts of the matter is the more that are trained that small percent = many more incidents.
Call it what you will....we are letting the behavior of our youth be arranged and conditioned to accept the presentation of murdering, killing and mayhem. Repetitive exposure results in learned conditioning.
One only needs to look at the games, the television and movie content, the language, the lack of respect and for too many, no fear of the law.
Guns are only a piece of a very complex puzzle of life and in my opinion too many try to make the puzzle about guns!!!
btk
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How do you explain that youth around the world watch the same movies, play the same video games, watch much the same television shows, and get on the same internet as the youth in the US, yet there is such a disparity in the number of homicides per year. It can't be all attributed to lack of respect or no fear of the law.
Gun Deaths - 2011: Japan 48, Great Britain 8, Switzerland 34, Canada 52, Israel 58, Sweden 21, Germany 42, UNITED STATES 10,728 Source NRA
I read a quote recently that said Detroit had 300 some gun deaths in one year, while one mile down the road in (I believe it was London) Ontario Canada there were zero gun deaths that year. Presumably, being so close, these two cities are in the same TV markets and watch the same movies.
Fortunately, the brightest minds in Washington are working on addressing these problems. We've done nothing for too long, now's the time to act.