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It has now been just over a week since a lone gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado. The airwaves have been dominated by soul searching.
Most of the pundits have concluded that the main cause of this
calamity is the dark, strange behavior of the gunman. Talking about
anything else, they say, is silly. The New York Times’ usually extremely wise columnist, David Brooks, explains that this is a problem of psychology, not sociology.
At one level, this makes sense, of course, as the proximate cause.
But really, it’s questionable analysis. Think about this: are there more
lonely people in America compared with other countries? Are there, say,
fewer depressed people in Asia and Europe? So why do they all have so
much less gun violence than we do?
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