Re: Another week, another mass shooting
I think one problem is perception.
USA views this issue completely different to the rest of the world, so whilst a school shooting is another week in the good ol' USA, to the rest of us, it is a sign of out of control gun violence epidemic. To the majority of the world, people shooting each other up in the US is viewed as being as common as an English man drinking tea.
The issue might be down to desensitization. In a lot of places, gun crime is so rare, that it hits the news big time. In the US, gun crime is so common, it only comes up when there is a political agenda or someone goes postal.
What makes this worse, in the USA there is a wide-spread cult of gun worshipping where people fight tooth and nail to oppose even the most sensible measures, even actively working to sabotage efforts to even provide proper statistics on the issue.
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
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