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In reply to the discussion: So it seems "mom" was a full out gun nut survivalist whack job. [View all]Liberal1975
(87 posts)Don't know what to add or say. Something is wrong with our country, very wrong.
It goes beyond our ridiculous inability to have an intelligent discussion on gun regulation. Beyond the fact that these powerful military weapons are available when they shouldn't be.
I don't pretend to know what it is or what is to blame. Sensationalism? Video games? Movies? Media? There is a powerful streak of violence running through our culture. We need to limit access, but we need to also deal with the underlying cultural problem we obviously have with violence.
We glorify violence then sensationalize it once it occurs in real life. Mentally ill people often manifest their illness through the culture they are a part of.
The fact that crazy people in our country so often arm themselves and go on shooting massacres is troubling. The fact that access to weapons is so ubiquitous in our country that often times shooters who before hand were clearly mentally ill (as in Arvada, Newtown, and Va Tech) got a hold of weapons is a policy failing of monumental proportions.