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Originally Posted by Rathji
If the gun culture in the US is to blame, as many posters here have stated, then how is it that the desensitization, however minor, that happens from repeatedly shooting people in video game, gets a free pass?
If you make guns a common thing, trivializing or glorifying them to youth, and it will have an impact. Not saying it is the sole contributing factor in ANY of these tragedies, but to ignore or dismiss the contribution it can make into solidifying gun culture, would be foolish IMHO.
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It is incredibly disingenuous for people to say that violent media doesn't contribute in some way to these mass killings. I believe the anti-gun crowd, of which I belong, immediately loses credibility when they claim otherwise. The main argument of this group being "oh, violence in different forms of media simply desensitizes us, it doesn't actually promote violence"...
Until everything is put on the table and considered, with the exception of these idiotic notions of the religious right, nothing will be solved imo.
My own thought is that many things contribute to these people carrying out acts of hate, but the same tools are used over and over again to carry them out- therefore, it is easier to control the tools and weapons than it is the endless number of things that contribute to a violent nature.