Juan Albion
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Nevertheless, don't mention gun control...
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Multiple victims in a shooting in Louisiana cinema
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dingodan
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Juan Albion
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It's the national sport down there.
OzMike
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It's a constitutional right to kill people and your right to do it will be defended.
pastafarian
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I wonder why it is we concentrate on debating shootings in the US,is it because we expect the citizens to be civilised or because we are more likely to know someone that might be affected and therefore newsworthy ? I am a bit of a liveleak junkie and there are insane shootings all over the globe all the time,yet these never receive the same or any attention that an incident in the US receives .
That's an excellent question. I suspect it has something to do with our (Brits) inferiority complex with respect to Americans, combined with a lack of liking of what we perceive as arrogance, topped up by genuine bewilderment.
My theory goes something like this: we accept there is much to admire about a lot of the American life, but we dislike intensely what we see as American arrogance. Murder by gun is massively lower in the UK than in the U.S.; it's patently a bad thing that it's so high over there, so when it happens it fuels our schadenfreude and we just can't help gloating a bit that however good other things may be in the U.S., gun crime is dreadful.
Personally, I think that is simply due to the similaritaries we see (not with the guns) in their everyday society, with ours. It's not so hard to imagine ourselves being caught up in that cinema, or that shopping centre, or our kids in that school. That is why the U.S. ones hit harder than ones in the Far East or Africa or the Middle East.
By this token, I don't think it is just US incidents that would catch our attention - I think the same would be true of a similar incident in say Australia or New Zealand or Western Europe.
glasfryn
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Wrong-Direction
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Americans are mostly stupid, add guns into the equation and..
Are there as many in Germany, Italy, Spain and France?
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HellBilly
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I think if we had the population of America I think we would top the stupidity world table.
Then if you add guns, I think we would also be giving the USA a good run for it's money on mass killings by mentally unstable people.
So your comment actually proves to me you may well be as narrow minded possibly even as stupid as some of the Americans you claim are stupid.
StonehamPark
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Tom Bombadil
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I genuinely didn't know he had died until I saw this!?
Yeah, but before they could cremate him they had to take the gun out of his cold dead hands.
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Guns will never be banned in the US, the industry is worth billions of dollars and employs millions of people. Once again it all comes down to money.
Ban guns, shut the factories, legalise ganja, give all the former gun industry employees jobs cultivating weed, make $$$, everyone chills the **** out, homicide rates dwindle, people get even hungrier for that nutritious and delicious high fructose corn syrup.
Politics is easy
But nah, genuinely, guns are far too deeply-ingrained in their culture to do something about it now. Hell hath no fury like an American that has had their 'freedums' taken away.
daveinprague
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Being legally allowed to carry an automatic assault rifle, and not a joint is pretty ridiculous really.
We're both Western, at a global level we're culturally almost identical. It is so shocking because America is the only country in the industralised world where this happens frequently and they take no action to address it.
symyjym
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It looks like they had about 10,000 murders in 2013 according to this http://www.statista.com/statistics/195331/number-of-murders-in-the-us-by-state/
The US has 88 guns for every 100 population (compared to 7 in the UK). Even if gun control was introduced, it wouldn't stop killings from the 300 million guns already in the States.
US arms manufacturers are also very skilful lobbyists, and, coupled with the clowns in the NRA, have a vested interest in continuing the status quo. The industry is worth $31 billion a year, which is about six times the value of the Premier League.
US arms manufacturers are also very skilful lobbyists, and, coupled with the clowns in the NRA, have a vested interest in continuing the status quo. The industry is worth $31 billion a year, which is about six times the value of the Premier League.