Comments by "mhtinla" (@mhtinla) on "Gun Violence in America: A Conversation with Graeme Wood (Episode #283)" video.

  1. Argument from the anti-gun camp -- "All countries have mentally ill people but only America, an outlier in gun ownership, has mass sh00ting problem, therefore gun is the problem." Argument from the pro-gun camp -- "Americans have had guns for hundreds of years without mass sh00ting until recent years, therefore gun is not the problem." This conversation is not very effective because both are sort of in the latter camp, With the blinders on, they did not touch on how other countries (e.g. UK and Australia) effectively addressed this issue by changing gun laws. The evidence is getting clearer that America is in decline. Someone mentioned recently (I think Douglas Murray?) that, the signs of an empire falling include the erosion of social norms (e.g. gender fluidity), cultural collapse (e.g. toxic masculinity), etc. I would add, in this case, elementary schools that built like fortresses, and a dysfunctional government that is too paralyzed to do anything while children are dying in front of our eyes.
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