[lbo-talk] violent crime up

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 13 07:43:47 PDT 2006


On Jun 13, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> I think that US-ers
> are not necessarily more violent than other nations in terms of
> engaging in
> actual physical acts of violence. They are more infatuated with
> *representations* of violence

So why is our murder rate so much higher than other countries, and why do we love guns so much? There's plenty of violence in the media elsewhere.

Doug



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