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The way to break gun violence is to teach people that the way to solve differences is not to make sure you're a bigger bad ass than anyone who might come in con
by jmadsen 14y ago
The way to break gun violence is to teach people that the way to solve differences is not to make sure you're a bigger bad ass than anyone who might come in conflict with you.
Americans don't have a love of guns, they have a love of confrontation.
That was the most difficult cultural thing I had to learn when I moved to Japan.
- hga 14y agoJapan is a really serious outlier when it comes to not having a "love" of confrontation! I mean, their word for "you're wrong" doesn't even have that semantic content. I suspect America is a lot closer to the middle than it.
- jmadsen 14y agoI wasn't comparing to Japan, merely stating how it took an effort to change. America may be in the middle confrontation-wise, but when you add in the ease of obtaining a handgun, you get the current problem.
- hga 14y agoDebatable, see my research on non-gun US and all method U.K. murder rates, which are really close: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4935644 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4935644 I take this as evidence we're simply a violent people, however we're armed or not.