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by Blitzen on 26 December 2012 - 14:12
by beetree on 26 December 2012 - 15:12
Blitzen, that was a good article, here are some excerpts I can agree on: 
from your link, http://www.salon.com/2012/12/15/how_americas_toxic_culture_breeds_mass_murder/
- ... gun owners have been brainwashed to believe that private ownership of semiautomatic weapons whose only real purpose is to kill large groups of people is a constitutional right. That’s utterly insane and immoral, and over the long haul maybe they can be brainwashed back.
- ... the other 61 people who have so tragically acted out their twisted private fantasies on people around them have all been male. ... – the one thing you can point to in almost every case is perceived humiliation.
- ... what lies behind that problem is the fact that the U.S. doesn’t have a national health-care system that could maintain standardized medical records of at-risk individuals, and at least seek to enforce a nationwide standard of care.
- ... a culture with numerous fundamental problems: one that is economically divided and socially stratified, with a dark undercurrent of male anxiety and anger, one where high-powered firearms with no legitimate uses are far too easy to find, where the social safety net has been shredded and decent mental-health care is not available to all, and where our experience of the world is increasingly as a shared media spectacle. Does that sound familiar?
from your link, http://www.salon.com/2012/12/15/how_americas_toxic_culture_breeds_mass_murder/
by J Basler on 26 December 2012 - 16:12
Well you can't beleive everything you read.
by leeshideaway on 26 December 2012 - 17:12
by beetree on 26 December 2012 - 21:12
That's the thing Basler, it is an opinion piece. And the dialogue has to start in order for the rhetoric to change, so you can believe it, because it is being said, louder and louder, by more and more. The squeeky wheel does get the grease.
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