@moonbus saidGreat video (available in Germany)
... irresponsible people do. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership don't have gun crime rates, especially mass shootings, anywhere near as high as in America. Clearly, guns aren't the problem; it's Americans who are the problem.
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@shallow-blue said"Other countries with high rates of gun ownership don't have gun crime rates, especially mass shootings, anywhere near as high as in America."
The NRA is very much a part of the USA's unhealthy obsession with its guns. So, really, it's both; they're aspects of the same problem.
From the OP.
@sh76 saidIt is very definitely a cultural problem, and the NRA is part of that culture. There is no equivalent organization in Switzerland, nor is there any need or call for such an organization in Switzerland. The NRA is not a cause of gun violence in America, but the NRA is clearly not helping to de-escalate tensions in America. Whenever any politician or aggrieved mothers-of-shot-dead-children group calls for sensible gun control (such as outlawing military-grade weapons for civilians), the NRA inflames the issue by making it seem that libs are taking peoples' guns away. This polarizes the issue and renders a sensible solution practically impossible. If the NRA were to engage in rational negotiations on gun control, instead of its knee-jerk rejection of any controls at all, some progress might be made.
Bowling for Columbine was filmed in 2000 and 2001. In it Michael Moore makes the same point. He starts by attacking the gun lobby for mass shootings, but then pivots and blames American culture by pointing out that Canadians also love guns and don't kill each other with the same frequency.
I wanted to ask him then whether, then, he's really arguing for stricter gun laws or fo ...[text shortened]... ltural changes. Since I couldn't ask him, I'll ask you. Is it the NRA's fault or is it our bad mood?
But ultimately, Americans need anger management therapy; they need to learn to solve their problems without resort to violence.
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I used to live and work on Andros Island at a British submarine base there, lived in Cokley town and never saw gun violence and made trips to Nassau and saw nothing like gun violence so if you figure it is a black culture thing, it is an AMERICAN black culture thing. Whitey does his share of shooting too so it is not as simple as you make it out.
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@ThatsNotMyGum
So blacks kill what, 20k people in the US, and there are what, 20 million blacks so you propose to kill ALL of them. A bit overshoot isn't it? Besides starting a black white war.
Eugenics to what, change all of them to whitey?