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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @04:46AM
I used to think this way too. No way the Holocaust could have happened if every time they went to round up some Jews there was a shootout to the death. Then humans invented killer robots. Personal firearms are going to be useless against the next Hitler, who will use robots that don't at all think about going home to their families.