This thread is like trying to open a locked door by leaning on it. It will never end.
Yanks will never concede that guns are bad because they love killing living things, it is part of being a yank, they are taught to kill at a very early age.
They love war as it means they can kill people for free. It will never change so they may as well live with it and go on as they are.
Yanks, (it would appear to outsiders) would kill their next door neighbour over a minor issue then go back into the house to say grace and worship their other god. Safe in the knowledge their misdemeanour is absolved.
Plus, if the person killed is black then just claim self defence and you get off like the police do. That of course is assuming a white yank would live next to a black family, not something I get the impression would happen in reality.
I remember I asked Dick if he takes guns into church, I never got a reply. I presume because its like taking a statue of Buddha into church, a clash of religions, it would be hard to know what to worship first, god or the gun.
Col