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

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: 0, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:47PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 10 2017, @02:47PM (#452058)

    I agree with Phoenix666 that holier than thou eye rolling is weak sauce.

    If you like banjos, the only thing better than a banjo is dueling banjos, played well. Even if you don't like banjos, dueling banjos sound better. But a banjo plus eyerolling or ranting, eh go home and sleep it off.

    The problem with a response like "you're a big poopy head" is its basically stockholm syndrome speech for "I agree with you completely on all the facts and analysis and conclusion, but for political reasons I must pretend to disagree in public". Its a way of saying "AOL me too" in a politically non-diverse setting where the truth can't be spoken. Very millennial college student-esque, like something you'd hear said in "problematic white identity 101" class. But... this isn't a college campus where diversity in political thought is strongly suppressed. If you like something non-progressive counter-cultural non-establishment, you can just say it, at least here. No need for obtuse "My areas of disagreement are as numerous as angels dancing on the head of a pin" (aka... I have no idea what this means, actually) or "Your argument contains as many errors as Moldbug" (aka infallible).

    I always enjoy reading and occasionally disagreeing with AthanasiusKircher's well reasoned posts. Also Aristarchus and Azuma when those two are not triggered. Runaway1956 is interesting because we agree and disagree in so many apparently unpredictable ways and his arguments are uniformly very strong. None of that is weak sauce.

    We should have a new mod option "triggered" where people can just filter it out once its been identified. Yeah yeah yeah Azuma is all fired up, turned up to 11 ranting again, just mod it as "Triggered" to skip it and get on with reading the good stuff.

    The God Emperor's inauguration is in ten days I should be decorating and preparing the feast and readying Kek's worship shrine alcove in my house and celebrating in good cheer not getting in flamewars about whacked out UK gun control.

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