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) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:20PM
For the record, we have it on record that VLM is a fascist, because he openly advocated forced labor and extermination for undesireables. The code word he used was 'immigrants,' but he was talking about Latinos, Muslims, and other assorted brown people, but certainly not Irish overstaying student visas or Eastern Europeans sneaking in on container ships.
Washington DC delenda est.