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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.
While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.
The US is the US. It is not France, Spain, England, Germany, or any other country in Europe. We have a different mindset and culture. This country was built using guns. What works in Europe doesn't work in the US, and this might come as a shock, but plenty of us don't want the US to be like Europe. Where we might have more gun-related deaths (suicides and gang violence using illegally-obtained weapons are included in those statistics), other countries have more knife crime.
You also notice that all these atrocities and murders that are committed in the US occur in states with the strictest gun laws, like California, New York, and Illinois. You don't see shootings happen in places like Alabama. Why? Because almost everyone is armed. They can shoot back.
50,000,000 people shouldn't give up something they love and that they aren't hurting anyone with just because a few maniacs commit an atrocity.
Posted by: Not The Joker
Posted by: SmD x MaYHeM x
Because people giving up their right and hobby, along with a bit of their culture and heritage, is definitely going to reduce the number of maniacs, suicides, criminals, and gang violence that comprise a great percentage of those statistics.
Comparable Western democracies with stringent anti-gun laws have a tiny fraction of the annual gun deaths that the United States does. Many of them don't even breach 100 deaths.