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jbphilly t1_j9swb1w wrote

Reply to comment by Vague_Disclosure in 4 teens, 1 woman injured in shooting in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion section by bulbous_mongolian

> this country has some serious cultural being-completely-inundated-with-guns issues it needs to figure out

FTFY

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crispydukes t1_j9t4bzi wrote

It’s also cultural. The teens feel they need to compete and act in violence. That’s cultural. Criminal TikTok challenges is cultural.

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Vague_Disclosure t1_j9thjk2 wrote

Social media is cultural, increasing fatherlessness and destruction of the nuclear family is cultural, inability to handle conflict without violence is cultural, zoomers having increasing rates of suicidal ideation is cultural, young men becoming increasingly isolated and single is cultural.

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jbphilly t1_j9udxoq wrote

It's true that America also has a deeply violent culture that doesn't seem to exist in most other developed countries.

But even if we had all of that, but no unfettered access to guns for literally everyone, we wouldn't have this amount of shootings.

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