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Why does the US have so many more “bad guys” than other developed countries? What does that say about us?

I ask because we have the highest rate of gun deaths in the developed world and because Republicans and Trump supporters insist that we can’t have any more gun control because “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” and “we don’t have a gun problem, we have a morality problem”. Why do we have a “morality problem”? I thought we were “the greatest country on Earth”? So we’re the greatest country on Earth, we just have the shittiest people?
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
JP1119 · 36-40, M
@cherokeepatti Who says what? LOTS of my friends on Facebook and conservative political commentators insist that “we don’t have a gun problem, we have a morality problem”. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is probably the political cliche I’ve heard most in the last decade and a half. It seems to be common knowledge among Republicans that gun deaths are caused by “bad guys with guns” who can only be stopped by “good guys with guns”. Police, angels that they all are, apparently aren’t good enough.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@JP1119 Yeah, them damn guns just jump out of their holsters and run around killing folks