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posted by on Monday January 09 2017, @08:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the second-amendment dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:37PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:37PM (#452002) Journal

    I would say they're uniformly corporate, Establishment. I have watched the modern, post-fairness doctrine press kiss up to administration after administration no matter which party occupied the Whitehouse. The New York Times cheerled the invasion of Iraq, even.

    They cheerled for Hillary recently because she was Establishment, not because she was Democratic.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday January 10 2017, @04:49PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @04:49PM (#452121) Journal

    You are laboring under the assumption that Democrats are NOT warmongering corporate whores when that is EXACTLY what they are.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @08:07PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @08:07PM (#452214) Journal

      I am not laboring under that assumption. It's that I don't want to feed the false dichotomy and false narrative of Left vs. Right/Democrat vs. Republican anymore. It's tricky because many many billions of dollars have been spent to indoctrinate all of us with it so we spend all our time fighting each other instead of properly assessing accountability and making progress; and even when you consciously try to avoid it it still creeps back into your speech and thought patterns. But I have resolved to do the best I can to name things truly; I hope others might do likewise, but that's beyond my control.

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