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Video: Obama's Emotional Statement on the Connecticut School Massacre

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Killgore Trout12/14/2012 1:48:02 pm PST

re: #98 researchok

Exactly.

It is more an issue of the gun culture than anything else.

In Israel and Switzerland for example, guns are found in virtually every home because of mandatory conscription and reserve duty. Nevertheless, we don’t have these kinds of crimes there to any great degree.

They do not share our gun culture, the need for cowboy like vigilante justice and they don’t tolerate an individual’s fantasy as a ‘right’.

I think it’s even more broad cultural problem than just the gun culture. We are selfish, ego centric, thoughtless people. We spend much of our time and effort feeding our own needs and desires with little thought or care about how it effects others. I really think this kind of thing is the result or a lot of very deep cultural issues.