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mikjall's avatar

"We need to change our culture of violence while strengthening communal and family bonds. And we need to talk a lot less about “gun rights,” as if guns are people instead of tools that kill people, and much more about personal responsibility."

I think that this hits the nail on the head in identifying where the root of the problem lies. But how is it possible to "change the American culture of violence" when the governments, the media, the political party (What? You claim that there are two of them?), and even the churches (and synagogues, and mosques) are all devoted to cultivating hate? (Recommend Matt Tiabbi's collection, Hate, Inc. for a look at the depth of the media's hate-mongering for profit.)

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jg moebus's avatar

And another.... . In California, which has among the strictest gun control laws in the nation.

And apparently it's not just young White guys who have this problem with guns; old Yellow and Brown guys seem to be equally affected.

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