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Video games aren’t cause of gun violence in USA

I keep hearing politicians blame violent American movies and video games for our nation’s horrific gun violence, but it doesn’t make sense.

Think about this: American movies are watched around the globe, including Japan. And the Japanese people, on average, spend more each year on video games than Americans.

Yet in a year where there were 11,030 gun murders in the U.S., guess how many there were in Japan? Eleven. Not eleven thousand. Eleven total.

If these things are the causes of gun violence, why does Japan (or any other developed nation) not feel their effect?

Cheryl Hamilton, Madeira


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