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I'd guess the ratio is pretty low of shooters to listeners.
The deeper problems we face in this country are mental illness and drug/alcohol abuse, and to me - blaming such things as this shooting on a political/ideological schism simply glosses over the real issue(s) we should be talking about.
Education, health care, poverty, etc - and a more open societal discussion of what drives people to do something most others wouldn't would be more productive (to me anyway) than simply saying "Some person heard something it caused them to do X"; because so many have heard the same things and never did X.
It is akin to people saying that guns are the reason we have so much violent crime, yet there are millions with guns who don't use them to harm others.
Most everyone owns a knife of some sort, but some use them to stab people. We all have our hands (well most of us anyway) but we don't use them to hit people usually - but some do.
I grew up in a mainly conservative Christian home, but my family has been kind to others in many more ways than some people I know who have grown up in dem homes and claim to be liberal (ala my damned in-laws who are pissing me off right about now....)
The easy way out is to blame the tools people use or slap a label on them and blame something much larger - when the truth seems to be that the real issues are much deeper and have roots that some want to keep hidden lest they be forced to address them (like hopelessness from poverty, terrible health care, et al).
Show me a nation with a low crime rate with happy people and I will show you one that has good care for it's people and their needs, regardless of whether they own guns, knives, or have raving RW nut jobs blathering about this or that.
Sweep it all away and blame video games, guns, talk shows, tv shows, etc - but the simple fact is the majority does not do such things as shoot people in churches, stab people at ball games, beat others, and so on.
Our problems won't be solved by banning things and thus giving the government more power, they will be solved by addressing the deeper issues.
But that is not as easy as passing laws.
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