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writing for godot  Gun Violence, War, and War Video Simulations
Written by Richard Kane    Sunday, 17 March 2013 15:59 There are
two antiwar movements the Give peace a chance movement, and the
Libertarian one. Whatever benefit is gained in infringing on the
Second Amendment is lost from the way it lessens the antiwar
clout.  It doesn’t take gun culture to get some of us to kill,
Chimps do it and a few badly traumatized Bonobo monkey orphans,
separated from their culture.  When it comes to humans there has
been a dramatic hardly noticed shift since World War II. A
particularly meticulous general, General Marshal, reported back
that 80 percent of the soldiers never directly shot at an enemy
face or body. They would carry ammunition, even risk death in a
heroic mission to pull a wounded comrade out of direct fire but
still not fire directly at a human being. Then came video
training and civilian videos and now a perhaps 60% to 90 %
increase (statist