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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SW-User

The reason for this problem is partly because of the NRA who influences opinion on guns. Using fear tactics such as the Government will become tyrannical if there is a gun ban. They control many GOP members as well, any politician who believes there should be some form of gun control lose money they received from the NRA and possibly re-election. Even though support for background checks and the call to ban automatic weapons is very high among democrats and republican voters nothing gets done because of this association.

JP1119 · 36-40, M

@SW-User Yeah, I know all that. But Republicans say guns aren’t a problem, we just have too many “baaaad people”. I’m bored and frustrated that I live in a town and a state full of so many Trump supporters, and I want them to rationalize for me how “the greatest country on Earth” has so many miscreants.

JP1119 · 36-40, M

@SW-User Btw, I’m pretty sure [i]automatic[/i] weapons are already banned, you maybe meant [i]semi[/i]-automatic weapons? They’ll get you on that, say, “See, she’s trying to take away our guns and she doesn’t even know what the heck she’s talking about!”

SW-User

@JP1119 I see. Yes semi automatic weapons is what I meant.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@SW-User And of course you are an NRA member, and are fully aware of their agenda because of your membership

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@sunsporter1649 I take it you're a registered democrat?

JP1119 · 36-40, M

@QuixoticSoul That’s just what I was thinking, but I didn’t really want to engage with him lol.

SW-User

@sunsporter1649 I’m fully aware because of research.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@SW-User And your research included joining the NRA to gain access to their agenda, right?

SW-User

@sunsporter1649 You do know there is this thing called the internet, right?

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@SW-User And of course everything on the internet is as pure as the new driven snow, right?

SW-User

@sunsporter1649 Depends on where you go. Most of my info. comes from Pew research.