
Originally Posted by
sweetnsourpoke
Can't say I blame you.
One interesting aspect of the gun issue in the United States is the relationship it has with the mentally ill.
Now, let's take ****an as an example (won't use Singapore as it's a nation state). In comparison with other industrialized nations, ****an lags behind in the area of mental healthcare. In ****anese society, it's a bit of an embarrassment to seek treatment from a psychiatrist or to have a family member checked into a psych ward. It's not uncommon to see people that are clearly ill wandering around Tokyo and Osaka.
Sure, there have been instances of mentally disturbed people committing unspeakable acts in these countries (the Mamuro Takuma knife attack in Osaka....the 69-year old man burning down the Namdaemun Gate in Korea, etc, etc) but thank goodness these people don't have access to guns. Can you imagine?
Well, yes, you can. It's become so routine here. Shopping malls, town hall meetings, movie theaters, places of employment....you name it.....m**** shootings occur so frequently here, who even bats an eye anymore? So let's just load up, pack and carry. The more the merrier.
Nope, no gun culture here. No sirree.