are the unexpected resonance of two apparently unconnected social phenomena.
1) The desire of a ruthless commercial elite to operate their enterprises with impunity, without any sense of social responsibility...
2) The fear of an ignorant and superstitious mass of urban peasantry faced with the imminent loss of their alleged racial superiority and trivial economic prosperity.
No one anticipated how these two pathologies would have fed off each other and spiraled out of control in so short a time.
Know this: the horror of these school killings is not in the numbers; mass shootings contribute to only a tiny percentage of the firearm deaths due to madness, crime, accidents and suicide. The true horror is that there are more guns in this country than there are people. And the vast majority of them are held by one subculture.
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Gun deaths in America
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- America needs to look at gun laws in civilised countries and learn from them