Jesus. People like you are really scary. I hope people don't actually buy that shit.

One fight escalates to a shooting and it's "gun culture"? How much do you actually know about this fight? In fact, do you know it was not self defense? What if this guy was being attacked by the people he shot?

How many other fights can you point to which escalated to a shooting? What about a stabbing?

Seems like, while you're ridiculing people for basing their beliefs and ideologies off of Hollywood, you're basing your beliefs off of... Assumptions? The media, perhaps?

If you actually did any research, you'd see that what we have is a violent culture - more specifically, a poverty-stricken violent culture. It's not just that our gun-related crime rates are higher than European countries. So are our knife-related crime rates, and violent crime rates in general - murder, robbery, carjackings, et cetera. And a quick Google search will help you find that, in fact, low income is correlated with a much higher chance of being involved in a violent crime.

Gun culture from Hollywood? Right, because every middle-to-high class man is running around James Bond style shooting everyone. We have a gang culture. Most of the violent crimes are coming from poor neighborhoods where it's the way of life, and not because they saw it on TV.

Furthermore, I love it when people play the "in a different country" game... That game is fantastic for picking and choosing scenarios that support your viewpoint. Oh, what if this guy didn't have a gun, he only had his fists or a knife? In this specific scenario?

Well I have two answers for that question. One - you clearly have never seen victims of knife violence. It can be just as horrifying as gun violence. But fair enough - lets say that most guys can run away from him and only one gets hurt. Now choose a different scenario - a would-be school shooter who wants to hurt a lot of people, but can't get his hands on a gun. The kid is demented. You really think he's just gonna say "fuck it"? I'm not so sure about that. Maybe he bombs the school instead. You say below in one of your comments that we underestimate how much "ease" matters for crimes of passion. Well - despite the fact that you have zero evidence for this and I completely disagree (I think that a crime of passion will often take place whether its easy or not), lets say a bomb is too hard to make for the kid. Great, he'll make mustard gas. It's like, scarily easy.

P.S. for the people talking about knives vs. guns, you are the ones who watch too much Hollywood. Most gunfights happen under 20 feet. The 21 foot rule states that a man can charge you and stab you to death with a knife before you draw your gun and fire, at distances of less than 21 feet. You say you can physically fight back against a man trying to knife you? Good luck with that. Seriously. You've never been up against a 6" blade if you think that. The first hand you try and block the stab with is gonna get cut clean off. A gun will hit you from distance and you can't fight back? Look at the guy who charged the recent shooter. Shootings aren't like they are on Hollywood (which is ironic at this point). They're holes in your body, same as a knife. In fact, in many spots you'd probably much rather be shot than stabbed.