On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:59:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [massive snip] > It seems to me that a fundamental problem with this (common) viewpoint > is that guns have *always* been common in the US. > > Something has happened, though, to alter peoples' value of life. > In 1981, when I graduated high school, guns were an "inner city" > (read: poor, black & urban) problem. Kids in other schools (includ- > ing rural black schools) still settled their angry disagreements > with their fists. Now, in most *any* public high school, an angry > disagreement could result in a knifing or shooting. >
Again, here's my wierd-ass analysis: The reality is 100% of the "hard-core graphic violence" you see on TV is absolutely fake and is not even *remotely* close to the reality of what a gun does to a human body. An actual shotgun blast is 10,000,000 times grosser than the grossest of the gross thing you've ever seen on TV. I think the solution is to show *more* real graphic violence to people: people reallly can be shocked into civility. Go to www.ogrish.com and watch some of the videos and see if you feel the same. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
