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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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History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @12:57AM
Plus, the writer may be mixing cause and effect. Is the political angle a result of bad conditions or a cause? There are plenty of well-to-due progressive areas such that progressivism by itself does not appear to be the primary cause of region rot, such as rust belts.
Rust belts appear to be the result of the well-to-do and well-educated leaving when the bottom falls out of a regional industry. It's harder for the uneducated to move, exasperating an already bad situation, creating a feedback loop of despair.