| sc94597 said: It's funny how these foreigners "care" so much more about the well-being of Americans than Americans do, or so they think. |
Yeah, you read us like an open book - infact, we're weeping inside for loss of our freedom of not being able to own and use firearms and therefore not live in constant fear and paranoia of our countrymen. And the chinese. And the russians. And the *insert country here*.
I really "care" about well-being of Americans who opt for not having deadly contraptions in their households and end up murdered by a gun-wielding maniac who happened to be in the same neighbourhood/school. It is their freedom which is limited. And it's not just about gun-control (some countries have similar gun ownership ratio with only a fraction of the homicide rates). It's mix of all the things, like culture values/media/paranoia... A deadly combination. And the statistics show it.
So, no, guns aren't the greatest problem - IMHO the greatest problem of american culture is constant decline of the value of human life. The thing is that guns are amongst most efficient things for killing. Taking them away might limit the damage that individuals are able to make.
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