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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Well, my point is that the availability of materials informs the method of violence. Kids who like to blow things up either go on to be gun collectors or med students, in my experience. The availability of guns here tends to push violence that direction. The lack of avilability else tends to push violence in the direction of political statement using large explosions.
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It's certainly true that "art criticism by dynamite" has resulted in an almost complete lack of statues of public figures in Dublin, compared with the plethora of such statues that one finds in most European cities
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