What's the root cause of all this? You can't fight gun violence without knowing this...

[cilla4progress]

6. We also glorify violence in our culture. Which also feeds toxic masculinity.

Try to watch anything about history and it always comes back to violence. And yes, "we" (the dominant White culture) waged a lot of violence - wars, genocide. And it cannot be minimized. But other stuff happened, too, some of it worth reporting!

Also - and I know this is an R talking point, but I gotta agree - our "entertainment" is SO filled with violence it's obscene.

I would love to watch a film about Vikings, for example, but goddess forbid I should try to watch Northmen! How graphic does it need to be to get the point across. Yeah, the intellectual argument can be and is, well, it's reality. But, please - films and video games fantasizing about rape and murder. Dating back to Hitchcock. Just face it - western civilization, and US in particular, is a bloody, violence-filled culture. Blood lust. Does not bode well.