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The love of guns in the United States has been well documented, as have multiple mass shootings across the country such as those in Orlando, San Bernardino, Newtown, and Virginia. The ease of access to guns in American society comes at a shocking cost.
As of September 2016, almost 11,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence. Despite this high death toll, mass shootings in America show no sign of disappearing.
The Stateside obsession with guns can appear baffling to UK observers unfamiliar with its origins. So just how did this gun culture become so deep-rooted in the American psyche?
BBC source: Why Are Americans so Obsessed with Guns?
Wikipedia: Gun politics in the United States
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Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @10:00PM
How could anybody dispute your use of statistics when you cite no actual statistics or other sources in your comment? It's indisputable!
VLM has proven himself to be a congenital liar. [soylentnews.org]
Nobody should believe a single damn word he says.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday January 09 2017, @10:57PM
I still stand by that post proudly. Everyone else just triggered on the "ethics" dog whistle word and immediately went identity politics mode of us is good them is bad and I researched the situation deeply and documented why that office is objectively in fact totally worthless. I still say its totally worthless and no one wants to debate it beyond trivial level of "us is good thems is bad" or "anything ethics has to be good therefore its good no matter what they do".
I might even be wrong, but I did put in more research effort than ten of my opponents put together, so I deserve a participation trophy if nothing else.
I have written stuff thats outright false cause I'm just stupid sometimes, and I'll post follow up to correct the record when I notice it. Not this time. That office is useless paper pushing BS action for the sake of putting on good theater BS. In fact its actively bad because "we don't need real ethics, we gots us a committee already" That office is exactly what we don't need in government.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @11:03PM
> I still stand by that post proudly.
Of course you do! When you have no facts on your side, all you've got is the courage of your convictions.
If a strongly held belief is enough for you, it ought to be good enough for everyone else!
Tell us again how everything you disagree with is fake news. I love that one.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday January 09 2017, @11:54PM
I've never uniformly modded ACs down before, but you guys really make me want to start.
Have the balls to make a damn account before you hypocritically whine about a specific user.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:09AM
before you hypocritically whine about a specific user.
Was going to FTFY tango, 'til I realized it was not possible. Did you mean "hypercritical", or "hypnocritical"? And is it "whine", or some kind of "wine"? Could it have been "hippocratic wine"? Sorry that I have to post this as AC, but tango, you are defending a Nazi?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:27AM
> Have the balls to make a damn account before you hypocritically whine about a specific user.
The day VLM pays the price for his constant prevarications — his posts start at +0 just like mine do — is the day your complaint will have merit.
As long as he's going to get a +2 bonus for being pseudonymous despite regularly lying his ass of and being a racist sonofabitch then I have every moral right to hold him to honest account for his words. Obviously the karma system is failing to do it.
You want to mod me down for pointing out his history of lying? Go ahead, it is absolutely within you rights to be as petty and parochial as you desire. And since I post at +0 your spite will punish me for telling the truth more effectively than the same down-mod applied to VLM's lies would. You'll be a hero.