78% of Germans want to BAN private gun ownership.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I find it funny to listen to the scapegoating crowd. According to them, violence didn't exist before guns and TVs were invented.

well, music, too.  remember, Marilyn Manson caused Columbine (even though the kids didn't listen to him)

...according to Ralph Nader.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Guns are probably more easily available in Switzerland and Finland than the US. They're not that much more difficult to get in Canada either.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nader quote:

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http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/398-Corporations-and-Violence.html

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not really, he just says the real problem is not Manson but the corporations behind him (Even though Manson was making music before he signed or tied to any corporation.) Besides, the entire thing is still a rather inane prudish rant.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

In this case nothing should be done about it, especially as the major corporations are making good entertainment in some of the listed examples, not Manson, but The Basketball Diaries and Doom come to mind. And actually, neither one of those is really a product of major corporations either, Doom was made by a small software development studio that had a total of four employees at the time of its creation, and The Basketball Diaries is an independent film, not a major Hollywood one. Similarily Howard Stern started out as a small time DJ, etc. So even Nader's moralistic nonsensical anger is misplaced.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah, but they didn't produce it.

For another example, Nader would no doubt include Todd Solondz's work in that little rant if it was more well-known, yet none of that is hardly corporate. I think that Solondz and a friend took out a loan and completely funded Welcome to the Dollhouse themselves. Yet Nader woudl no doubt lump it in with more evil corporate propaganda.