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   From: anarcissie@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:01:17 -0600, Khelair wrote:   
   > ...   
   > 	IMO this is all just a really pointed indication that there are   
   > some serious problems in society that need to be addressed. ...   
      
   One might want to be aware that the number of homicides   
   per year where the weapon used is a gun is going down.   
   The recent shootings have been spectacular, but they are   
   statistically not very significant, and laws and policies   
   are supposed to be made to deal with the general, not the   
   particular.  Maybe the number of guns should be reduced,   
   by force or otherwise, but if so, this was as true before   
   the shootings as after.   
      
   As for causes, in a country of 310 million people, there   
   are going to be a certain number who go off the rails in   
   their own peculiar and idiosyncratic ways.  Searching for   
   some generic social cause would require many more of these   
   incidents, which fortunately we don't observe.  If we're   
   just guessing, I'd say publication of big stories about   
   these incidents in the dumber media probably 'cause' more   
   than games or anything else.   
      
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