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Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns?

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

mrpg writes:

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:12AM (#451799)

    Exactly how is it "sophistry" to dispute your numbers when you produce blatant falsehoods?

    Standard tactic - accuse your opponents of your own failings. Everything that bot posts is sophistry.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:36AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:36AM (#451812) Journal

    Biiiiingo. The holy trinity of the neo-reactionary right is hypocrisy, projection, and ignorance.

    This means you, VLM. Uzzard. J-Mo. Kyuubey, if you're still here. Runaway, you too sometimes. You don't fool anyone with their eyes open, and for the benefit of those whose aren't, I'll point it out every--single--*fucking*--time--one of you festering shitgluttons decides to piss in the meme pool.

    Mod me down all you like; all it does is expose your own hypocrisy and taint your souls even further.

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...