You’ll get no protest from me that entertainment media in the U.S. seems addicted to violence. It wasn’t the release of Saw that bothered me; it was its box office sales.
But the U.S. is only one of many countries that consumes, in large quantities, such media. And genocide, as @Wanderfound pointed out in another thread, seems to be a pasttime of human civilization.
I’m not saying that violence in mass media isn’t a plausible exacerbating factor, but if so, I suspect it exacerbates something unique (either by degree or mere existence) to the United States. Gun supply is most definitely one such uniquity.
