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
(Score: 5, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Monday January 09 2017, @08:50PM
I will shoot the next person that says we are obsessed with guns!
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @09:06PM
Where's the "+1, Irony" mod when we need it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:08AM
That idea has been shot down.
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday January 09 2017, @09:13PM
You're certainly not obsessed with apostrophes. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Monday January 09 2017, @09:24PM
It's the apostrophe's clip size restrictions what's done it.
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(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:26PM
Me will send the next Grammar Nazi that shows up in this thread to a concentration camp.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Anne Nonymous on Monday January 09 2017, @09:43PM
Say "obsessed with guns", one more goddamn time [youtube.com].
(Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:46PM
Can an article be modded "flaimbait"?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Thursday January 12 2017, @10:16AM
Latest idiot attempted to defend his grilled cheese sandwich from his wife with a gun.
Yes, this actually just happened.
At least this disease is largely contained within the US.