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Re:Afghanistan bans YouTube over anti-Islam film | The Austr... by mindstab on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:53PM (#4512351)
Maybe Norway, but are you kidding about America? There are tons of shootings in America all the time. Not all are big mass mutli killings. That's how you know there's a problem, merely 4 people dying probably wouldn't even make the news.

There was recently that one where some white supremicist stormed a sikh temple and shot people. That's just the most recent one in my memory, wasn't that a few weeks ago.

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Re:Afghanistan bans YouTube over anti-Islam film | The Austr... by w1ntermute on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @05:47PM (#4513425)
Hyperbole doesn't help anyone. Sure, America is a lot more violent than Western Europe, but both America and Western Europe are so much less violent than a veritable warzone like Afghanistan that even trying to claim otherwise doesn't achieve anything productive.
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Re:Afghanistan bans YouTube over anti-Islam film | The Austr... by mmanfrin on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @06:49PM (#4513689)
That's because Afghanistan was a warzone and still is; but to make snide aspersions as to where these nations are 'stuck' based off of acts of wanton violence is wrong and belies a blind hypocrisy.
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