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We don't have a gun problem in the US as much as we have a serious gun and violence laden culture. Everything within mainstream media seems to revolve around killing, murder, bad guys, cop shows, war machines the list is non-stop. I don't know what the obsession is over the taboo of killing here. I grew up in the late 70's and 80's and saw an interesting turn in pop culture as far as television and the early video game movement.
I don't like to preach blame it on the media but our progressive lifestyles with more single parent homes and an economy that now is more demanding of a dual income (I blame the me generation of my parents here frankly) left many kids my age (I'm 43 now) left as what many called latch key kids. We stayed at home, watched too much boob tube and had less and less contact with our parents. A kids left to his or her devices learns from their surrounding environment.
So nature and nurture comes to play here maybe. While I grew up around Andy Griffith, Speed Racer and Bugs Bunny, the stimuli of a youth in the late 80's and 90's had 120 channels of uncensored violence and video gaming that glorified high scores for "killing zombies" or steeling cars and beating people up. We are all indoctrinated with death and mayhem here. Every damn show on Major networks is a cop show or some sort or has a violence component.
So sex and violence sells and we just keep on buying it; why is everyone so damn surprised when this stuff happens? It very sad to see so many innocent lives touched by gun violence here, We have only ourselves to blame for this bull$%^t. I don't see a gun problem but an enormous mental health epidemic fueled with many other cultural dis functions stemming from poor parenting, economics etc etc. I do not blame the guns, the gun owners and manufacturers.
America has a titanic problem with accepting responsibility whether it's personal accountability at work, at home raising a family or as a society demanding higher standards for entertainment and enlightenment.
I must also admit to being a gun owner of numerous types of firearms for sporting clay, upland game and various other medium to large game. I was involved in shooting sports for competitive shootings small bore rifles and pistols and later a short stint in bench rest long range shooting up to 1000 yards. It is a great hobby and had been demonized by a few nut bags and these End of Days apocalyptic wackos.
Oddly enough the only people who prosper from these gun scares after shootings and during pre-election panics are the gun manufacturers and the stores selling them. I find it strange that the ultra right here in the country never explain that the most invasive and strongest gun control or gun ban came about after Ronald Reagan and Senator Brady were shot in the early 80's. The Brady Bill was not a bill pushed by The Democrats as much as Brady and with an overwhelming endorsement by none other than that Great Actor Ronald Reagan : :roll:
I don't like to preach blame it on the media but our progressive lifestyles with more single parent homes and an economy that now is more demanding of a dual income (I blame the me generation of my parents here frankly) left many kids my age (I'm 43 now) left as what many called latch key kids. We stayed at home, watched too much boob tube and had less and less contact with our parents. A kids left to his or her devices learns from their surrounding environment.
So nature and nurture comes to play here maybe. While I grew up around Andy Griffith, Speed Racer and Bugs Bunny, the stimuli of a youth in the late 80's and 90's had 120 channels of uncensored violence and video gaming that glorified high scores for "killing zombies" or steeling cars and beating people up. We are all indoctrinated with death and mayhem here. Every damn show on Major networks is a cop show or some sort or has a violence component.
So sex and violence sells and we just keep on buying it; why is everyone so damn surprised when this stuff happens? It very sad to see so many innocent lives touched by gun violence here, We have only ourselves to blame for this bull$%^t. I don't see a gun problem but an enormous mental health epidemic fueled with many other cultural dis functions stemming from poor parenting, economics etc etc. I do not blame the guns, the gun owners and manufacturers.
America has a titanic problem with accepting responsibility whether it's personal accountability at work, at home raising a family or as a society demanding higher standards for entertainment and enlightenment.
I must also admit to being a gun owner of numerous types of firearms for sporting clay, upland game and various other medium to large game. I was involved in shooting sports for competitive shootings small bore rifles and pistols and later a short stint in bench rest long range shooting up to 1000 yards. It is a great hobby and had been demonized by a few nut bags and these End of Days apocalyptic wackos.
Oddly enough the only people who prosper from these gun scares after shootings and during pre-election panics are the gun manufacturers and the stores selling them. I find it strange that the ultra right here in the country never explain that the most invasive and strongest gun control or gun ban came about after Ronald Reagan and Senator Brady were shot in the early 80's. The Brady Bill was not a bill pushed by The Democrats as much as Brady and with an overwhelming endorsement by none other than that Great Actor Ronald Reagan : :roll: