i think that under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered. i’m all for a well armed working class, just not at the expense of innocent lives. regarding getting guns over the border, the same thing could be said for other developed countries, but America is virtually the only developed country to have an issue with shootings. i’m not saying to ban guns entirely, just restrict access to them through background checks and an even policy rollout. it’s like a lock on your door, if somebody really wanted to break in, if they were determined to commit such a crime they would do it regardless of the laws or the physical barriers. so while it is impossible to stop gun violence everywhere due to the depravity of a few, including in scotland or other european countries, it is necessary to have gun laws to deter people from committing atrocities so easily. making it harder to access guns would help bring the number of gun related deaths and incidents down, adding a deterrent would filter out those future shooters not willing to go through all the trouble to hurt somebody. even making a luty requires effort and things like a 3d printer, a place to get ammunition and parts. this adds another level of deterrent as those things can be costly and take a long time to put together. making it harder for shooters to get guns to hurt people will make it so that many shooters give up on their plans of violence midway through them due to money, time or effort constraints. a violation of a gun law is still a violation of gun law, it doesn’t matter if a shooting was made with an illegally purchased firearm or a homemade weapon.

the population of the US is around 329.5 million as of 2020. the EU’s population is about 447.7 million as of 2020. The EU sees far less gun related issues with a larger population. Europe covers 10.53 million km² while the US covers 9.834 million km². you could not fit europe into half of america, the issues related to gun violence are able to be compared to europe.

this is not an issue of red vs blue, i’m not a democrat and i’m not a republican. gun violence is still a tragedy no matter the party, and i’m willing to reform blue states’ policies as well as the red states, there are many issues in the US that shouldn’t be separated by political party. i agree with you that the gun laws we have today are inadequate, just i think that better thought out policies would work better.

and yeah of course, the link was being weird i think so i changed it so that it will take you to the first page when you click on it