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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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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:06AM
You have to prove how "manly" you are by the amount of guns you own. Any idiot that thinks they are going to overthrow the government with their AK-47/AR-15 deserve what they get. The U.S. Military will use your house for target practice when you start nonsense. A few mortars through the roof, and then an M-1 Abrams through your front door. Problem solved.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:44AM
I will not disagree there are gun owners out there like that.
Some are interested in the 'sport of it'. They collect them like pokemon cards. They will never use them all.
Others like the 'idea' of it. They are exercising their right.
Others want one for the utility of it. Commit a crime or defense.
Others want to stop those who want to commit a crime of it.
Others fear the 'idea' of it. That there is a device designed to kill.
Others dislike the idea of materialism and hording.
Others dislike the idea of showing off.
Others also like to use the lack of gun ownership to control others. As the idea you can lose a right means you have none. The KKK was very good at its propaganda. It echos on till this day.
Bottom line is it is 'enshrined' in the constitution. The guys who put it there did have an idea or two about brutal regimes. They were both practitioners of it and victims of one. Why did they do that? If you dig into that reason you will have a better idea why it is a good idea to keep it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:50PM
That might work the first time. The trouble with turning your military on the citizens who support and arm it is they tend to stop supporting and arming it, and even begin to fight it. Then you have soldiers in the military who wonder why they're dropping cluster bombs on their cousin's neighborhood in Pittsburgh, and crushing daycares full of children with their tanks. Some of them then find they can't obey those orders, that their commanders are in the wrong and need to go. End result: civil war.
Washington DC delenda est.