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Jiang frames America as a society addicted to violence, citing guns, the sacralization of the Second Amendment, football, and reverence for war history.
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"...that Americans are addicted to violence. For example, America has 434 guns, sorry 434 million guns. That's 1.3 guns for every one person and..."
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"It is an extremely violent sport. In fact, America is really the only country that plays this sport, and Americans love football. The Super..."
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"...a problem. It's got all these factories that produce tanks, machine guns, airplanes."
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"...it's your people who make the machines of war, the machine guns, the artillery, the munitions, and therefore, you have to make sure they..."
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"...can always get more uh with a nice word and a gun to someone"
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"...someone's head than just with a nice word alone so that gun to people's heads is the is the military bases and the carrier..."
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"...to the assassin. Who then took a bullet, who took a gun and shot him to death."
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"...this would be ICE. Do you really need soldiers with machine guns in the streets to deport illegal immigrants? Obama was able to do..."
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"...really cool stuff because we're going to build we're building a gun range and we've got a combative gym coming in and all that..."
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"...phone calls I've gotten from my buddies or teammates putting a gun in their mouth, I'm just fucking tired of it. I know. The..."
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"...day, right? That's the physical act of pulling the trigger to gun to your head. What people don't realize is that doesn't count drug..."
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"...take a fight like that. We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks..."
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