re: #456 moderatelyradicalliberal

It’s not so much the guns as the culture. There are other countries like Canada and Switzerland that have very high rates of gun ownership, but unlike us, they don’t kill each other with them at anywhere near the same rate.

Too many Americans buy guns with an “I wish a motherfucker would…” kind of attitude. There is something in our culture that’s the problem. I don’t quite know what.

I saw very interesting article online on this, and I wish I could find it again. It talked about how both the US and Canada took a lot of pride from their frontier history. Yet the symbol of Canada’s frontier past was the Mountie (the peacekeeper and law enforcer) while that in the US was the cowboy (the lone gunslinger).