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Gun-Crazy Right Wing Howls for Bob Costas to Be Fired

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Petero181812/03/2012 7:00:13 pm PST

re: #120 Political Atheist

Some argue that just watching violent sports and violent video games cause a desensitizing, a thinning of our collective reluctance to commit harm. Football players try to hurt each other. Rage is encouraged to exploit the adrenaline for the win. Enforcer squads etc.

It’s up for debate. Cars kill a lot of people. Rarely deliberately. But we have this DUI fatality thing. It’s huge. Tragic. Deadly. What do we do? We get after drunk drivers, not car ownership. We get after drinking and driving so we can punish and discourage this behavior. We get help for alcoholics.

We need to learn to help “rage a holics”. Because you can take away the guns. But not all the rest of the things that kill. Cars. Clubs. Knives. Even bare hands.

Yes it is important to address rage issues in people. By all means. But the dangerous aspect of driving is a byproduct of the use of the car in a way in which it was not intended, or in some accidental manner. A gun, in being used precisely as it is intended to causes death.