It's not just "guns". Even in the United States guns have kinda become a sort of "cultural" thing rather recently. When you look at it historically the way weapons are treated today wasn't always like that. Just look at the NRA in particular which actually started as a group about advocating for gun safety and not "gun rights".Yeah, europeans are different. You lack the asshole or cowboy culture that most folks associate with America. You are willing to put up with much more regulation for the sake of 'stability' whereas we value a more independent spirit, even if it costs us more in the end. You see this most prominently in issues like states and gun rights. At least in the past.
And believe it or not but most regulations - not all but most - are there to protect liberties. And not to limit them. Like regulations against child labour, or regarding work safety, labour laws, environmental regulstions and so on. Because without those most of the time ordinary people would face situations where they had no way to fight back. Like large companies simply dumbing their shit in the next river or things like that. Again I am not saying ALL regulations are great. But when you really look at why most of them exist? Then it is to protect your freedom. Form those that actually don't give a fuck about it. So you don't get poisoned by your food or cancer from some shit that someone left around you. Like imagine there was no regulation regarding radioctive waste. Oh the freedom!
I mean com on. The US is a modern society.
This kind of often leftist liberal bullshit is why America is so much more different tham Europe and why things that work over there will not work here.
Possible. But I feel it is likely that it has a lot more to do with things like this :
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