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Quote by: mark Your chart doesn't have anything to do with availability of guns to individuals, it's mostly cultural from what I can tell. |
Now you're simply playing dumb. Charts showing the dramatic increases in atmospheric CO2 don't have anything to do with temperature either, but the connection to global warming is well established.
The United States, almost alone among the world's civilized nations and democracies, does not heavily restrict gun ownership. When this is pointed out, the rejoinder is always that the rest of 'em are a bunch of socialists who don't like our freedoms. Well I've been abroad and most of them seem perfectly free to me... mostly free of violent crime.
But in one sense I do agree... it's cultural. Cultural in that we live in a gun culture, where the entire mythology of our nation is built on guns, and our popular culture -- movies, TV, games, etc. -- wallows in gunfire and how good guys are always handy with a gun, and problems get solved with gunfire. Hell, todays computer games, which
studies now prove promote violence, are nothing more than
combat training programs. All of this is a direct result of Americas love affair with guns and gun play.
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