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NYC_SKP

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5. We're a relatively young culture...

Reply to GRACIEBIRD (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 27, 2014, 06:23 PM

Jan 2014

And as the country is so large, we're also diverse in our lifestyles: Miami life and Alaska life aren't too similar.

But I think a lot of the nastiness I see is new, possibly having developed more rapidly in the past two generations, since Reagan.

Is it all the war?

Is it the consumerism, the sense of exceptionalism?

I don't know, but it is troubling.

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Guns and Violence in America [View all] GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 OP

I agree with you, and I'm not particularly proud of our culture or our behavior at home or abroad. NYC_SKP Jan 2014 #1

thank you for the advice GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 #3

We're a relatively young culture... NYC_SKP Jan 2014 #5

Welcome. Those with a gun fethish will be upset with your post. But Hoyt Jan 2014 #2

thank you!! GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 #4

Is that like saying people who are pro-choice have an abortion fetish? The Straight Story Jan 2014 #8

If Zimmerman or the old guy who shot two Blacks walking near his property had not had a gun, Hoyt Jan 2014 #13

+1 GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 #17

I've never lived outside the US mokawanis Jan 2014 #6

Is it possible GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 #7

as noted above The Straight Story Jan 2014 #9

I don't know then GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 #10

Murder rates by country vs murder by guns by country The Straight Story Jan 2014 #11

so the US is about 6x more violent than Germany? GRACIEBIRD Jan 2014 #15

We have cut our murder rate in half over the past 20 years hack89 Jan 2014 #12

Think how low it would be without gunz. Hoyt Jan 2014 #16

I don't indulge in fantasies hack89 Jan 2014 #18

Guns, greed, casino capitalism, a violent history mokawanis Jan 2014 #14

Id leave out the sporting events example Boom Sound 416 Jan 2014 #19