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In reply to the discussion: We have elevated gun lust to a religion in this country. [View all]tjwash
(8,219 posts)26. The US wants the oil in the middle east so, they butcher thousands of Iraqis to get at it.
The US wants to secure the pipeline to the tankers, they drone strike and shoot thousands in Afghanistan to secure it.
The US doesn't like the Chinese government getting a little too close to their interests in Asia so they napalm and carpet bomb Korea and North Vietnam and kill off hundreds of thousands of people in that part of the world.
Americans are so immersed in the middle of a culture of "GIVE IT TO ME IT'S MINE!!!" that they don't even think twice anymore about killing someone that stands in their way. Sometimes they will kill people because they have nothing better to do than stew over some perceived insult, or, just because they don't like they way someone looks.
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Harris and Klebold killed their victims with guns (or bullets, if you want to be
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#33
Did you read the OP, or do you just have some of these lined up any time "gun" is in a subject line?
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#22
The US wants the oil in the middle east so, they butcher thousands of Iraqis to get at it.
tjwash
Dec 2012
#26
According to various theories of criminality, when you associate disturbed "impulse"
Surya Gayatri
Dec 2012
#27