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« on: December 18, 2012, 08:19:36 PM » |
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A combination of:
- a highly competitive social model that produces a high amount of losers and alienated people. - a media culture that glorifies being famous. - easy availability of guns. - a tradition of vigilante justice, that can inspire the idea of "getting even" with all those people that bullied you/looked down on you, or whatever it may be that pisses you off. - lack of mental health care. - a fairly aggressive ideal of masculinity, that values being tough and dominant (which may only be possible for some types with a gun in their hand).
None of these factors are of course uniquely American, but the combination of them is.
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