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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:09AM
easier to respond with a knee-jerk insult than formulate an actual coherent argument?
Could be. But it is very difficult to form a coherent counter-argument to batshit-insane right-wing NRA talking points, since they are incoherent to begin with. And it scares me when Runaway goes all "Internet scholar" on us. Sure sign of a red herring fallacy.