• sunzu@kbin.run
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    4 months ago

    a culture problem.

    aka our gun “culture” is pathetic. it seems people don’t realize there are other countries that have a culture of guns and they don’t have as much issues.

    Why wasn’t this shit happening when I was a kid?

    I think mass media made terrorist acts more appealing. However this appears to be just normal american degeneracy enabled by idiots with guns.

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      4 months ago

      We are agreed! I stick to liberal or unbiased gun content, and that’s not hard to do. But I’m well aware of all the macho, kill 'em all, Punisher logo type bullshit out there.

      Maybe that’s partly what I’m getting at? Just seems like guns were a tool when I was a kid. Nothing to puff one’s chest about.

      As to mass media, yeah, shit really seems to have gone off the rails after Columbine. Maybe that’s my age and life experience talking, but I don’t remember much of anything before that.

      Sure, there was Charles Whitman unloading from the Austin clock tower, but that was news precisely because it was so unheard of.