Guns and Violence in America

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10. I don't know then

It seems the culture makes people who are violent. This violence manifests itself with guns but if there were no guns maybe it would present itself with knives or sticks or bombs?

Look back to Latvia in WW2. When Germans made Latvia invasion they made simple Latvians law enforcement officers and Nazi collaborators. The first thing that they did was seek vengeance against all in their neighborhood who wronged them historically. Violence is grown when given permission or a head nod or a smile.

And to add:

Maybe it's the "acceptance" of violence that grows more violence? If one young boy said "I'm going to go beat up John for being gay (or having red hair or being fat)" and what if all his friends and peers all said "You are loser, it's not funny, it's not acceptable and you are excluded from our group for showing such behavior" would it still be desirable to be violent?

Or is it because every violent person has a support group behind him giving him congrats and cheer for violence well done?