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Locut0s

(6,154 posts) Fri Dec 28, 2012, 12:29 AM Dec 2012

Guns aren't the only problem in America...

An interesting article someone just sent me that makes the provocative argument that the problem is that the US got democracy too early.

http://www.straight.com/news/gwynne-dyer-gun-culture-united-states

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Guns aren't the only problem in America... (Original Post) Locut0s Dec 2012 OP

The biggest problem is any deranged nut case can get a gun. It is doc03 Dec 2012 #1

Well that article gives one possible, though somewhat condescending, explanation for it. Locut0s Dec 2012 #2

doc03

(35,345 posts)

1. The biggest problem is any deranged nut case can get a gun. It is

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 12:48 AM

Dec 2012

harder to buy a pack of cigarettes than buy an AR-15. This country is insane it's illegal to smoke in any public building or workplace in Ohio but you can carry a loaded gun just about anyplace.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)

2. Well that article gives one possible, though somewhat condescending, explanation for it.

Reply to doc03 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 01:11 AM

Dec 2012

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