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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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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday January 09 2017, @11:28PM
You don't always see it coming.
I knew a young guy who was shot dead years ago. Sold his car to some kid who had a bad temper, and a father with a worse temper. Supposedly the car's wheel fell off or something of that nature. Well the father and son came back to demand their money back. Seller was with his friend and heard the idiot kid was doing something stupid which broke the car (something like racing or doing doughnuts.) So he told the two to get lost as they were responsible for the damage. The father and son threaten them verbally, and wanting nothing to with that, they walk away and got into their car to leave. The friend, the witness, then said out of nowhere the father walked up to the car and shot the seller in the head. Just like that. No warning, no nothing.
I was just a kid, maybe 8 or 9, and I knew the seller as he had worked for my father a few times. I remember playing catch with him. His friend also worked for my father. I saw the friend a few weeks later, and little dumb kid me asked what happened to the seller. All he could say was, "He's dead." Me: why? Him: "I don't know what to tell you but he was shot in the head. His brains were splattered all over my face. (his voice was shaking)" I stopped asking. It was a shock. I cried. Very vivid memory.