For most republican voters in this country, the right to own and carry guns is way more important than protecting their own children from gunfire. They'll never admit that, but just take a look at our daily headlines and the truth is clear. (We just brought back bump-stocks.) We should be flashing statistics related to firearm related deaths on our daily news like we reported fatalities in the early days of covid. Of course those guns didn't just point and fire themselves, but a lot more people would still be alive if the US had the guts to pass common sense legislation. (As opposed to say...........green-lighting the firearms industry to fund messaging that scares the fuck out of as many citizens as possible in order to persuade them to stockpile as many guns and as much ammunition as they can afford........the NRA is notoriously corrupt) A gun culture has been intentionally created here. "American patriots" have been convinced that their rights are gifted from God, (Not legislated into existence by people) so we have an untouchable mix of religion, guns and capitalism that's entrenched. A lot of angry and fearful gun-owners are just itching to point their guns at someone now because they're convinced of an approaching revolution, race war or some fucking zombie apocalypse.