However, I recall the UCSC sociologist Dane Archer arguing that war has a positive impact on increase of violence because it legitmizes the use of violent means to attain goals. If his argument is correct, it may explain the steady increase in positive attitudes toward gun ownership. Since the Gulf War 1, the empire has been almost uninterruptingly at war with someone.
Wojtek
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 12, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
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> [WS:] I find it hardly surprising. Lawmakers simply bow to the will of
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>> majority of the American people.
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>> 54% favor easing restrictions on gun sales vs 44% who favor more
>> restrictions
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>> By comparison, in 1990
>> 78% favored more restrictions on gun sales vs. 19% who favored easing
>> restrictions
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> A supposed shift of opinion of this magnitude is simply inconceivable
> without some major cause, yet episodes of horrific firearms violence have
> continued to occur at an increasing pace and that can only increase
> sentiment in favor of gun control. The only conceivable explanations are
> massive media brainwashing and/or pushpolling by Gallup. In neither case
> does the "will of the majority of the American people" have anything to do
> with it.
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> Shane Mage
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> "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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