Our cultural exposure to video games, news media, movies, TV shows, websites and music is no different than the exposure of citizens in UK, Canada, Australia and other developed English speaking nations. However only in this country do we have regularly occuring slaughter both in massacres like those in the last several months and the grinding daily death toll of individual gun homicides. And only in this country do we have the second amendment and organizations and individuals which interpret it to prohibit any meaningful restrictions on citizen gun ownership (the phrase well regulated was rendered moot by the present SC, prior to that there was no prohibition on local gun regulations).
For an example of what can be done I would point to the example of Australia where in 1996 as a result of a massacre there was a rigorous set of regulations enacted. Since then there has only been either zero or one (depending on the definition of mass meaning 4 deaths, there was an incident with 3).In the 18 years prior to these laws there had been 13 such mass murders. It would be fair to point out that the rate of gun homicide/suicide was lower in Australia prior to the new laws than it is in the US, but it has gone even lower.
Gun politics in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gun deaths by nation
List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Will the CDC be doing any research on the epidemic of gun deaths in this country? We have approximately 32,000 firearms deaths a year. That is about the same as those caused by hypertension or liver disease. The CDC regularly publishes research on these killers, but not anything which might reduce gun deaths because...
specific language was inserted into the CDC's funding prohibiting it by the NRA's enablers in Congress
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us...pagewanted=all
An interesting article looking at the comsumption of video game consumption and gun related murders is at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...d-gun-murders/
We are in vigorous agreement that graphic depictions of violence cannot be helpful. But only here do we meld the availability of highly effective mass killing tools with whatever external and internal triggers drive the individual to action.