Imma shoot y'all down. Because I can.

I find this rather fitting the situation I am finding myself in.

America is a country that loves itself.

Most European countries like to make fun of themselves, or simply hate themselves.

Sure, you'll find a couple ol' patriots and nationalists in every country. But the national pride just works the best in USA.

That is in a way a great thing. People need something to be proud of.

However, there is a problem to it; it prevents them from seeing the actual issues. There are some very fine things about USA, but there's a lot of bad stuff too. Particularly, almost everyone owning a gun is one of those problems. 

I mean - I get it. You need a gun to protect yourself. It makes sense for you to be able to get a gun because of that, right?
Well, NO.

If you make getting a gun easy, every other criminal can buy it now absolutely without problem. And shoot people with it. And so increasing the demand for guns - so people could defend. But they go nuts and attack someone. It happens all the time here. It's a vicious circle. Back in CZ you can stab someone. It's a very violent yet effective way of dealing with problems. That is pretty much the same like guns. However, there's a lot smaller chance that you will kill someone by stabbing them than shooting them. If a person with a knife gets into a choleric rage and stabs someone - ok, they're badly injured. When the knife-holder realizes what a terrible thing he's done, he'll call the ambulance and there's very solid chance the victim will be cured perfectly. With a gun - if the victim is not dead on the spot I'd say they can call it a lucky day.

Now there has been some medial buzz around that recently (shooting at Batman premiere, remember? Well, there's been a lot of other shootings you may not have heard of), but it will fade out when the news is not hot. There's not so many activists that would fight for making gun laws more strict. People just don't care about the wrongs around them so much here. They either choose to ignore them or accept them as they are. Which, again, might be a good thing (you can find an activist for every little piece of bullshit in EU), but it may also prove to be crippling any political or social development.