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posted by on Monday January 09 2017, @08:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the second-amendment dept.

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 lgw on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:15AM

    by lgw (2836) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:15AM (#451769)

    While I think that most gun-nuts wouldn't even notice when they would have to take up their arms.

    It will be quite obvious: when the Brown Shirts come to pull your neighbors out of their house and take them away or shoot them on the street. Tyranny doesn't start with a totalitarian government, it starts with assholes using violence to enforce their belief system, while the government openly tolerates that violence. It takes only a very small percentage of the population (1-2%) willing to go into harms way when that happens to outnumber and outgun the Brown Shirts.

    In those conditions you will run out of bullets at some point

    America will never run out of bullets. There are certainly more than 10 rounds per person in the US, probably in the range of 30-100, in private hands, and more in government armories. If those ever run out, you just need to be friends with a reloader. Cartridges aren't high tech (except some special fancy ammo), and really only primer is hard to make.

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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:28PM

    by tathra (3367) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:28PM (#452022)

    It will be quite obvious: when the Brown Shirts come to pull your neighbors out of their house and take them away or shoot them on the street.

    unless those neighbors are black, mexican, muslim, homosexual, transgender, jewish, catholic, hipsters, liberals...

    no, they wont start acting until its their personal door being kicked in, else they would've started acting decades ago.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:30PM (#452168)

      unless those neighbors [being pulled out of their house, taken away or shot on the street] are black, mexican, muslim, homosexual, transgender, jewish, catholic, hipsters, liberals

      None of which is happening outside of the illegal Second Prohibition. Lie detected; try again?