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RE: A foreigners view on America's gun policy
Americans are at the vanguard of capitalism. We've been substituting work for life longer than any other culture on the face of the earth. Impotent rage combined with access to firepower = senseless violence.
Gun control will work about as good as drug control has worked.
It irritates me that this is characterized as an "american" phenomenon. I think "late stage capitalist culture" is more apt. The shooting spree started with that guy at University of Texas in the late50s/60s. Far as I know, there weren't mass shooting in the US prior to this.
disclosure: american