Gun violence
My heart breaks— I can’t even keep up with these #massshooting crises in the US. I’m just sick.
Other countries have mental health problems. Other countries have video games. Other countries have bullies, incels, rap music, atheism, neglectful parents, and every other factor we hear. What other countries DON’T have is a definitional blurring between high-capacity bullet sprayers and small self-defense pieces. #Guns should be limited purpose tools of necessity, not power fetishes.
Gun Law
@LouisIngenthron thank you for your informative post. I should’ve clarified what I meant by blurring the line, but was both emotional and at the character limit. I was referring in more of a psychological and sociological sense; the gun’s place in our society. What we think of when we think of gun ownership and gun rights here, and what we’ve normalized, what’s aspirational, and so forth, which seems out-of-step with the norms of other countries.
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@AmberWavesofFlame Fair. Although it certainly seems like, especially in the last decade or two, guns are going the way of cigarettes in the cultural subconscious.