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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: 4, Insightful) by Entropy on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:13AM
Guns were the tools of revolution, and the overthrow of an unjust government. Removing guns from the hands of the people(as would be a violation of the US Constitution) is simply a way to repress them and make sure they can't do anything about whatever injustice is done to them. Guns were guaranteed in the constitution not for some "sporting purpose" nonsense, but as a tool to be used in defence of the people.(Possibly against the government)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by joekiser on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:27AM
The British asking Americans why we need the right to personal self defence is like Saudis asking why we need freedom of religion or North Koreans asking why we need free speech.
In all three cases, it says more about the state of the people asking the question than anything else, and should be properly answered with "Go fuck yourself."
Debt is the currency of slaves.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:32AM
Removing guns from the hands of the people make[s] sure they can't do anything about whatever injustice is done to them.
Oy, weak and cowardly Americans! No wonder they are so easily terrorized! Boo! Little scared American!! So now we see why India is still a British Colony, and it is being forced to Brexit: Gandhi didn't have no guns!!! Free dumbs!! Free dum-dums! Americans!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @04:24PM
On the contrary - it was the English who were weak. They allowed some ragamuffin of a leader to defeat them with little more than words.
Ghandi? Show of hands: How many are aware that he was really a racist? Or, that he served in South Africa, squashing those horrid black people found there?
"No longer able to pledge allegiance to the British government, Gandhi returned the medals he earned for his military service in South Africa and opposed Britain’s mandatory military draft of Indians to serve in World War I."
http://www.facts4u.co.in/mahatma-gandhi/ [facts4u.co.in]
That knobby headed old dude had some admirable traits, but he wasn't the man portrayed by the media. Ghandi wasn't a pacifist by choice - he used pacifist ways because an unjust foreign occupier denied him weaponry.
"'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
Good reading here - http://www.vho.org/tr/2004/2/Kemp184-186.html [vho.org]