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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biased post is biased.[/quote

Uh, yeah, and blue sky is blue (and your statement is redundant.)

If I'm biased, I'm biased in favor of wanting to protect my kids and others from random shootings, especially with rapid-fire military-style ones, that are too available to criminals and the mentally ill.  I'm biased in favor of common sense measures and fail to undestand why society goes to such lengths to keep a young man from a beer but not from such weaponry.  I'm biased against industry lobbies that once embraced measures like universal background checks, but now use extremist, racially-tinged survivalist arguments against such measures because their usual tactics of fear and intimidation don't work as well after Newtown.

I fully agree that we need more and better treatment for the mentally ill.  (Is the Tea Party willing to fund it?)  I also want to see restraint and controls on violent video games.  But mental illness and violent-themed games and other media are not unique to the U.S.  Indeed, most industrialized Western countries are pretty similar to the U.S.  No, what makes the U.S. different from these countries -- the tragic element of American "exceptionalism" if you like -- is the rate and sheer number of deaths from firearms.   What's the variable that is not constant here?  Our easy access to guns, especially powerful military-style weapons.[/quote]

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