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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:14AM
I would love to see you explain this theory to a group of infantry veterans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:34AM
Screw you and your false valor.
My am a vet. He's right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:20AM
Vets are a homogenous hivemind now? I'm also a vet - GGP is wrong: rural gun owners in particular care little for what others do so long as they aren't robbing, raping, murdering, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:29AM
OP is the one who started the homogeneity canard.
Your argument about "robbing, raping, murdering, etc" is the most common rationalization of a racial motivation for gun ownership.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @04:14AM
Gee, I guess that since "rationalization" over historical and ongoing fact is raaaacist, we'd best get rid of everyone's guns post-haste!
Dream on; "racism" as an insult is dead. You killed it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:20AM
> Dream on; "racism" as an insult is dead. You killed it.
Good thing you literally just resurrected it then.