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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:27AM
> Have the balls to make a damn account before you hypocritically whine about a specific user.
The day VLM pays the price for his constant prevarications — his posts start at +0 just like mine do — is the day your complaint will have merit.
As long as he's going to get a +2 bonus for being pseudonymous despite regularly lying his ass of and being a racist sonofabitch then I have every moral right to hold him to honest account for his words. Obviously the karma system is failing to do it.
You want to mod me down for pointing out his history of lying? Go ahead, it is absolutely within you rights to be as petty and parochial as you desire. And since I post at +0 your spite will punish me for telling the truth more effectively than the same down-mod applied to VLM's lies would. You'll be a hero.