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happydolphin said:
hsrob said:

I've not really stated anywhere that I thought guns should be removed, in fact, the opposite. 

While it may be logical that there is a connection between watching violence and partaking of violence, it does not necessarily follow that the two are causally related. Look to other countries that imbibe of the same (violent) media but don't have the same level of violence.

Bottom line, any connection they can make between videogame violence and the Sandy Hook shootings will be extremely tenuous, at the very best.

That's true, but at the same time these other countries don't have the social stresses that the states have (I'm not knowledgeable enough to name or explain them, but I know they're there). These are in part due to a breakdown of better values, but are also fed by the material those other countries are also imbibing of. I'm not so sure it's a good mix.

Sorry but that's just a little too hypothetical for my liking.   If however, we assume for a moment that this factor is a real thing, then my questions is as follows. If American society is someone fundamentally different from everywhere else and people are more stressed which in turn makes them more likely to act out in aggression, why do we also need videogames to explain this violence?

We have a factor (not yet clearly defined here) that can be used to explain violence, which is unique to America.

We have another factor (videogames) that has not been definitely linked to violence, which is not unique to America.

In this scenario why are we looking at videogames first?