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Doyle McManus: Is there something wrong with us?

"I could never live in the States again," a Canadian friend who once lived in San Francisco told me this week. "Your cities are just too violent."I'm in northern Ontario, bear country, where most hunters, farmers and loggers own guns. When they look at the United States, they think there's something wrong with us.

President Trump says we have so many mass shootings because of mental illness, video games and the internet. But Canada has mental illness, the internet and violent video games, too - the same video games, in

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