America and guns – What’s the big deal about having a few rules?


Marjorie Taylor Greene and her weapon of choice.  Y’all feel safer now?

Americans’ fascination with guns is intriguing and disturbing to most non-Americans. We note that there are about 400 million firearms in private possession in the US – more than one for each man, woman and child in the country.  At least one of those guns is in the hands of Marjorie Taylor Greene, which is disturbing in its own right. We see a quasi-religious reverence to the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees a “right to bear arms.”  And as Americans “bear” those arms, they keep shooting themselves and each other in rather alarming numbers.

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