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Re:Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific e... by vacri on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:28AM (#4323404)
The problem in the US is not rifles, it's handguns. The US gets ~17k murders per year. 13k of those are with firearms. 11k of those are with handguns. Shootings like Aurora are visible, but they're not common.

A much harder thing to do is decouple firearms from masculinity - that link is everywhere in the US, from Hollywood to patriotism to those 'defend your daughters against home invading gangbangers' ads.

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Re:Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific e... by protomyth on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:39AM (#4323485)
Well, out here in the middle states its a tool and a lot of women shot just as well as men.

We don't teach people about actual risks, but we sure hit them with hysterics. We can do this because people feed off what breaks the pattern and then assume it is the pattern.

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