Yes.

See in other countries whose governments are at least rational, fair and sane and treat their citizens with some level of respect, they can ban guns and everyone will be cool with it. But the US government are a bunch of greedy psychopaths and short of a revolution (either bloody or digitally), the people recognize a real threat.

The government has oppressed, marginalized and criminalized basic human rights behind a veil of "let's not call each other names" bullshit. Our court systems are corrupt, prosecutors and cops on the take. Even have stupid court cases where kids playing cops and robbers and making a gun shape with their hands are able to be expelled from school.

This government literally generates laws out of fecal matter, everytime one of them takes a shit, there's another law...to the point where we're all criminals in some form or another at this moment. They've made it next to impossible for people to just earn a living, pay their way, so supplemental options that pay far better end up enticing people. Instead of spending money for rehabilitation or treatment centers, this government has decided commercial prison system is more lucrative - just lock them up, get paid. There is not a non corrupt police station anywhere in this country, guaranteed. They are all 100% corrupt - and the cops who aren't corrupt just facilitate it by looking the other way so they don't break the blue wall.

It's ugly underneath the reality tv shows - that are the 21st century adaptation of The Running Man vs The Hunger Games. Entertainment for the elite psychopaths who got wealthy by ripping off the citizens...and keeping most of them too dumbed down to realize they've been victimized. (See Honey Boo Boo)

Real illustration - where we used to live, Halloween has basically been wiped out except for the mall nonsense by 4pm, and my youngest son who loves Halloween decided to try an inspire the neighborhood we lived in to decorate for Halloween. He got typewriter paper and drew all sorts of spooky Halloween scenes with zombies and monsters and gore and all that, and passed them around to every house on a couple of blocks.

I was proud.

Then, I shit you not, two cops showed up to give me shit that someone called the police because they received terroristic threats - holding up several of the Halloween pics my son had put on people's doors. They were absolutely dead seriously on the verge of citing me with something but they really - as normal people outside the uniform - couldn't quite bring themselves to follow through. They did decide to "scold" (fear monger) my son until I asked if they intended on arresting him. They said no, I said then get lost and closed the door.

So this kind of shit in the USA goes on all the time, worse than that of course, and because the political agenda has basically divided this country into the wealthy elite and fuck everyone who isn't, the "everyone who isn't" has to go about things in ways that aren't necessarily wrong or immoral but are absolutely criminal as far as the law goes.

So the government might try to ban guns and shoot up a school and blame it on an antigovernment sort to make the point, but the day it tries is the day there's a bloody violent revolution...because people know exactly what would happen if we turned over the guns.

It's not an issue here so much of the common sense rational approach. It's pure self defense FROM a government and its enforcers that are out of control...and one day, some cop is going to nazi out to the wrong person and a shit storm is going to explode. It's a high tension topic in America.

If the GOVERNMENT was gone, the people would get along pretty well with one another generally speaking. It's the government/media bs that keeps the divisiveness going...and pandering to religious retardation. They don't want to educate the religitards because they can exploit them come election time...