[FreeReign]

In August 27, Salon magazine published an interview with the author of a recent study on mass shootings to claim that the drive for “American exceptionalism” creates “a gap” between that which people desire and that which they achieve, thereby resulting in a dissonance that leads to violence.

I think it's Big Government's push against American Exceptionalism that creates a gap between what people want to achieve and what people can achieve.

[Flick Lives]

String Theory? More like Loose Wire Theory.

[Torcert]

,“American exceptionalism”

That means the government is constrained by the rule of law and the people - and the Right to keep and bear arms in the cornerstone of that constraint.

[ChicagahAl]

Aside from the fact that this clown doesn't even understand what String Theory purports to say; here is a more realistic take on the subject of American Exceptionalism:

It is all right to have high hopes even if they end in disappointment because one can’t live without hope.

That is what Robert Browning seems to be saying in his poem, Andrea del Sarto, a dramatic monologue where the painter in his old age is speaking to his beautiful, young, faithless wife. He says:

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?

From here: Robert Browning

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Who destroyed “the means to do so”?

[UCANSEE2]

[ozzymandus]

Amerika’s fault.

[TexasRepublic]

Even more tragic, it is usually the wrong people being shot.