1. Why is America such a voilent soceity? 2. what is your opinion about the use of guns in Australia -society

Question

im asking that because of the news recently and everyone have guns in usa so please someone answer both of my questions thank you ^^

Answer 1

America is not violent. You are just seeing what the media wants you to! Most Americans live very peaceful lives. I don't know enough about Australian society to answer your second question. Sorry.

We are for the most part, a peaceful people. Get to know us.

Good luck! :)

Answer 2

A country with 220 million people and one south Korean whack job shoots up a school and suddenly we're a violent society again?

Instead of gun control, how about movie/entertainment control? No one rants about Quentin Tarantino's freedom of expression and so-called art when he glorifies violence. No one rants about video games like GTA and the Coke commercial that mocks it. Yet again, the tool rather than the user is vilified.

If it wasn't a gun, it would have been something else. Had it been legal to carry concealed weapons on a school campus, perhaps someone could have stopped the murderous rampage before the body count got to 10. As it stands, the criminals are the ones who try to protect themselves against such violence. Do you realize that IF someone had had a gun on campus and stopped this fury, they still would have been guilty of a crime?

America's problem is stupidity and political correctness, not guns.

Answer 3

Sorry, I don't know much about guns in Australian society. As far as the United States, I don't know how to explain it. Maybe we never got over that frontier, shoot-out mentality. The rest of the world must think we're crazy. Last night on the local news, after the latest on the horror in Virginia, there was a story about a young man who killed his family and then shot himself. Guns, guns, guns.
It's too easy to get guns in this country. There are people who won't like to hear that, but it's a fact. In other countries, where I assume human beings aren't really all that different from us, they don't have the huge number of deaths by gun violence because they have very strict gun control laws. That's a fact.
We're only seeing what the MEDIA wants us to see? Are you delusional? Were they not supposed to report about what happened at Virginia Tech??? How about this on the nightly news: "Today, 100 million Americans didn't shoot anybody." Jeez. Get your head out of the sand.

Answer 4

America is just a reflection of all society around the world we are not sneaky and out of the box about it,,,Get real and guns are here to stay and in the other countries the middle class or lower income are at the mercy of the people with guns,

Answer 5

1. yes a lot things happening in the day to day life of an american is looked upon as voilent, and can easily be termed as "wrong"
i attribute this to freedom, the line btw right and wrong is so thin that ppl dunno where they r stepping..parents cant discipline kids, legal permit for guns, divorces, abortion legalized...just about everything is permissable in America... loosening out a little on every front.. we have lost control on life itself.
America needs to turn to God!
2. opinion on use of guns in australia - i dont know abt the law that exists.. but certainly laws regarding custody any form of weapon must be stringent, in any country.

Answer 6

I don't know much about Australian society and it's relationship to guns.

The question about America is a loaded one. Do you mean to identify a level of violence in America by comparison to another, less violent society? Is American society more violent than in Turkey, where the state still cuts off peoples' hands (don't tell me it doesn't happen, I've seen it)? Is American society more violent than the Middle East, where sectarian violence between Kurds and Sunnis, Shi'a and Sunnis, Insurgents and Iraqis, and Jews and Arabs, produces hundreds of deaths a week? Is America a more violent society than Stalinist Russia, where 30+ million people were murdered by the state? Is American society more violent than some of the African nations currently governed by regional warlords and civil strife?

Your question seems written from the perspective of someone who does not live in America. You need to understand the difference between the news and the truth. The news outlets have a responsibility to their corporate ownership to get ratings, which sells advertising, which generates revenue. To get ratings, they report the "news" in a manner which invites shaping the story (telling only the parts they want to) in order to exploit the incident. Often (more than most would like to admit) the news outlets condition their news reports to push a political, social, or personal agenda.

Not everyone in America has guns. Actually, most people don't. Stating "everyone have guns in usa" is like me saying all Iranians carry car bombs. It is a gross generalization and not true. For the most part, America is a peaceful place, and most folks will never personally experience anything like the Virginia Tech shootings outside of what they see on TV. The truth is, the news intentionally overlooks all the good things that happen every day because the bad stuff is what grabs peoples' attention and gets them the ratings they need to sell advertising. Most Americans are good, hard-working, loving people who take care of their families and communities. In a normal day, most Americans have very little to complain about. In a normal day, most Americans don't even have anything to yell at anyone about. We get up, eat breakfast (most of us), go to work, do our jobs to the best of our abilities, then come home and live out our private lives with our families. Every now and again, someone may get in a vehicular accident or something, but most people in America will never have a gun pointed at them for any reason. Most people in America will never have to handle a firearm of any kind for any reason. Even for those who do handle firearms on a regular basis (police, hunters and other private gun owners, security personnel, etc.), the vast majority of them will never fire a shot at another human being. Don't let misguided imagery or televised "news" condition your impression of American society. I've seen dozens of stories about America from Arab television networks that, if they weren't obviously intended to incite division between our societies, would have made me laugh. News agencies, especially state-run ones like in the Middle East and some European countries, are not the torch-bearers of truth they hold themselves up to be. Every one of them has an agenda, whether political, environmental, social, whatever. Please understand that what you see on television is not everything that Americans are.

Answer 7

Violence has nothing to do with gun ownership, other than people are more likely to want to own a gun, because of it.

The violence, in my opinion has been created by several factors. First, the undermining and ridicule of any public display or reference to religion, particularly Christianity by or mainstream media, our courts and our politicians. Traditional values, which are based on traditional Christianity have been under attack for decades.

On top of this, the recording industry has been promoting illegal drugs to young people in the US for over four decades. Congress refused to clean up the recording industry, preferring to take their money.

If that wasn't bad enough, movies and TV glorifying mindless violence. And the absolute worst, the rap culture. Rap recordings made by degenerates mumbling about killing cops, raping women, drugs, and how bad they are.

It is not guns, it is a culture that promotes and glorifies violence. A culture that mocks Christianity. A culture of death: homosexuality and abortion.

Guns have always been part of American culture, and always will. As long as we have criminals and degenerates running our media, and in our government, we will continue to see the corruption of our youth. And the result of that corruption is what you saw in Virginia.

We need to clean up our act in the US. But we are not about to surrender our firearms to the criminals who made this tragedy possible. It is the anti-gunners who created the "GUN FREE ZONE". That Gun Free Zone cost many of those students their lives. Even though Virginia law allowed them to carry a firearm, the school prohibited it. Gun control killed some of those students. Gun control made them defensless.

Gun control always makes law-abiding people defensless. Guns save lives. Gun control kills.

Answer 8

1. Most Americans are stupid, FAT, lazy, ignorant and worst of all in a religion
2. Who cares about guns in Australia...

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Answer 9

I dont know the gun policy in Australia

Answer 10

had the student had a right to carry a concealed gun they would have stooped this craziness as soon as the freak pulled his gun .he would have been holyer then Swiss cheese .