[QUOTE=janmcn;596398]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.[/QUOTE I think everyone should seriously look into drugs playing a major factor in these cases. Legal and/or illegal partnered w/violent video games causes these kind of violent acts.
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