and not only not white, but the rise of groups that are not male. That's the other half of it.

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Terrikes.

The United States has 4% of the world's population a little bit over 4% and it has 43%

of the world's privately owned guns long and short guns. In other words the gun ownership

is 10 times the population percentage here in the United States. So I think it's fair to say that

that Americans or the United States citizens have an attachment to guns as well as to gun violence

that is out of proportion to that anywhere else literally on the planet. So it does invite the

question what's going on? Why is this happening? Why is the attachment to guns what it is?

And I was hoping since this has to be at least in part a psychological question, what is it that

attaches Americans particularly now in our history to guns on this scale? What can you help us

understand? Well part of it is the media in which male gun violence is featured. Clint Eastwood,

Macho Man rides off alone, doesn't have any support system of other human beings he can count on,

just like the fellow who shot the 59 people, Mr. Paddock, whose girlfriend was in the Philippines,

we don't know whether she left. In my study of them, all of them previously have had either a woman

who left them or a job that fired them. He had made two million dollars and lived off of it as

a gambler for 30 years so he was not fired. We don't know what his girlfriend Mary Lut was doing

in the Philippines and not with him, but those are the emblems of masculinity in our toxicly

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