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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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Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday January 09 2017, @11:58PM
"Racist" is meaningless; it died in 2016.
You know, curiously, this is the kind of thing only a racist would say! You fucking racist, trying to obfuscate the fact that VLM is both a racist and not smart enough locate actual facts, but is smart enough to do a whole comment without once using the n-word. One almost can come to admire such clever levels of racist sub-intelligence. The only thing more devious would be an attempt to erase the word "racist" entirely. And, bless your heart, here we are! Epic racist fail! This is why we cannot have white supremacy!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:05AM
Exactly.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:20PM
For the record, we have it on record that VLM is a fascist, because he openly advocated forced labor and extermination for undesireables. The code word he used was 'immigrants,' but he was talking about Latinos, Muslims, and other assorted brown people, but certainly not Irish overstaying student visas or Eastern Europeans sneaking in on container ships.
Washington DC delenda est.