American Gun Idiocy

I'm from the right, a Trump supporter, but fuck me with a broomstick if American gun laws aren't insane. They were made when the US was a rural country and the most lethal widely available firearm was a rifled musket. To apply them in a modern urbanized setting with high population density, rampant drugs and widespread mental illness is wrong and stupid. In a town of a million people there are thousands of dipshits, numbskulls and junkies that have no qualms killing people. To allow these scum to buy fucking AK-47 and other assault weaponry is beyond insane. You Americans are fucking out of your minds and you deserve all those mass shootings that happen nearly every damn week.

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The government has only minimal control over mass media in the West

Wrong here. Germany has lots of media running on state money, same goes for socialistic Scandinavia, and probably other countries. American Congress & Obama have recently lifted a ban on state propaganda http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-24/obama-signs-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-law

their audience is composed almost entirely of mindless drones

You must be talking about the mass media here, as that's where most fake news and uncritical, unanimous audiences are.

but a media outlet that is forced to at least pretend to not be biased

That's not true of the vast majority of US media, as the last elections have shown. Practically all of the major outlets vere openly biased against one of the candidates and nobody 'forced' them to even pretend to not be biased.