If I correctly understand the author, does not the following obviate the author’s argument ?
“It isn’t that we are a particularly violent society. Our violent crime rate is about average for industrialized nations. Even as bad as TV and movies are about encouraging violence, we’re still not too far from the rest of the world. Where we differ is how we do our violence.”
The way I read this is.. “Guns are bad. Americans use guns more than anyone else. Get rid of guns.”
That’s pretty obvious. As for making his argument unnecessary... Yes, I think it does.
If “Americans” are doing violence against others, then those others ought to be equally armed to prevent that violence. Simple as that.
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I love Bruce Willis’ action movies, and I love war movies in general. That doesn’t make me want to go out and shoot people.