• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s multiple issues:

    • Lack of access to mental health services.
    • 24/7 commercial news geared more towards fear than information with no fair and balanced doctrine for reporting.
    • A widening wealth gap depriving those at the bottom of the income ladder the dignity of a stable life.
    • Private ownership of said media suppressing unfavourable stories.
    • Civil forfeiture and warrior cop training creating a mafia attitude in US Police departments.
    • A lack of realisation that the historical context for gun ownership in the US was to keep the natives off the land cliamed by a settler because the British didn’t want to repeat Spain’s mistakes.
    • More willing to accept licensing and denial of access to a car as punishment for breaking driving laws despite that the car is more fundamental to existing in modern US than the Gun.
    • Treating the constitution like a holy manuscript rather than it’s original purpose of being updated/replaced every 5 to 10 years.
    • A broken electoral system in dire need of reform.
    • Underfunding education.
    • Lobbying so rampant they might as well host the bidding for Washington representatives on eBay.

    The list is very very long. The USA’s cultural fabric that is the people’s common heritage is being stretched and torn by those who believe they can make a profit from the scraps.

    The USA is a young anglophile country, you’ve only had one civil war, I reckon you’ve got at least another one coming.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      More willing to accept licensing and denial of access to a car as punishment for breaking driving laws despite that the car is more fundamental to existing in modern US than the Gun.

      Licensing to carry exists in most states, though some have removed that. We also do typically remove access to guns (or at least the CCW depending on state and infraction) as punishment for breaking gun laws.