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Originally Posted by kyp275
As far as mass shooters go, I think your argument is pretty sound.
Still, if you look at violent crime overall beyond just the mass shootings, I'd say the violent culture has significantly more impact there.
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In terms of regular violent crime you may be right. But there's also issues of poverty and broken families. I listened to an interesting
radio program recently that compared the experiences of an Afghan war veteran, and a former drug dealer from Philadelphia, and the similarities in experiences were uncanny. To give some context to the dealer, he came home at the age of 6 to find his mother shot dead, and from there it was all downhill. The difference, I guess, is that the War Veteran comes home from the war zone, the dealer is stuck there.
I don't really think the violent crime in these areas is strictly related to our violent popular culture, rather the violent pop culture in those areas is a symptom of the violence and poverty that is already endemic there. Though I will say that pop culture is responsible for all the
"poseurs", but while they're extremely annoying, they're ultimately harmless.