Nah, this country isn't fucked up.
From the Guardian:
Best reader comment out of many, from "supposeyoucould" on 30 April 2014 at 12:20pm:Armed to the milk teeth: America's gun-toting kids
Available in bright blues and hot pinks, rifles for kids sell in their thousands in America. They look like toys – but they're lethal. An-Sofie Kesteleyn travelled to photograph this juvenile army
"Give a child a gun and she'll just blow her own brains out. But teach that child to shoot and she'll blow her whole class's brains out too. "NRA Summer Annual 2014