Kim Jong Un wrote:well I think it was better than what you guys previously had but what you guys really need is something like medicare here in Australia. I mean with all the shootings there your gonna need it and frankly I don't get why people need so many guns, I mean I can understand like a pistol or something for self defence but you can get machine guns there and all sorts of crazy stuff and what I really don't get is why would a 18 year old be able to get a rifle which probably has longer range and is more dangerous than a handgun which you can't get when you are 18?
I used to think that the amount of guns is the cause of so many shootings in the US, but I was proven wrong.
I mean Yemen has half the number of guns that we do, and yet they really don't have any shootings. Not half the number of the US, but maybe one or two every few years. Canada also has a lot of guns, yet they don't have shootings as a major problem, not even close. I found this out when I watched Bowling for Columbine, a Micheal Moore film that gets to the bottom of the problem.
He interviewed a bunch of regular people, and asked what they thought the cause for so many shootings in the US is. Some people said violent movies and video games, some said race differentials, and some said the number of guns. He disproved all of that. Japan and India created some of the most violent movies and video games in the world, and they don't have a shooting problem. The race differential is about the same in European countries and Canada as it is in the US, so that claim is false. The number of guns, as I already mentioned, does not have to do with it.
The only thing that can be deciphered between the US and other countries is the media. Here, you turn on your TV or car radio, and what do you hear? "Covid-19 is spreading to...", "Man shot and killed last night during..." "THERE IS A SWARM OF KILLER HORNETS COMING AND YOU COULD BE AT RISK!!"
Now if you were to step into Canada and watch some TV, it would be very different. More like "Congress passes a new law that allows children to..." and "A new festival is taking place this summer..."
See the difference? The media here in the US is more... fear mongering. Almost all of the stories on the news are meant to one way or another scare you. I can't explain exactly how this is attributed to mass shootings in this short response, so I urge you to go watch the movie yourself. It is an excellent film.
But, why do we need so many guns? I really don't know. It's definitely unnecessary to have 36 different guns in your home, if not obnoxious. But Since it isn't the root of many problems, it's best that it be left alone. It does give shooters easier access to weapons, but they would find a way to obtain a gun one way or another unless we were to outlaw firearms completely, which wouldn't be the best idea. I fully support stricter background checks and banning the sale of automatic assault weapons including bump stocks. I don't see why you need a magazine that holds 50 bullets in order to go deer hunting, or even for protecting your home (unless a psycho drug cartel is on your ass, but that's a different story).
A prison warden must be the very best at kung fu.