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With Aurora, Another Mass Killing Shocks America. Why?

the most sober ish i’ve read so far on the shootings in colorado.

There are many poor, unequal and segregated countries that don’t have a big problem with gun violence; and there are many countries with lots of guns that do not have a big problem with gun violence. But America is the only place in the Western world that has both rampant inequality and ample access to guns. Add to that a healthcare system in which large numbers of people are deprived of the mental health facilities they need, and you have laboratory conditions for sustained outbreaks of social violence involving guns.