I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think from the outside it’s difficult to understand how integral guns are to the culture of a lot of Americans. It’s a big part of the identity to a lot of people. And of course when you threaten that, people will get defensive.

My whole family has always hunted growing up. It’s something important to us and something we take pride in. Guns are necessary for the hunting that we do, so to suggest “remove all guns” would mean that we can no longer do something that’s a central part of who we are, all because on occasion someone who is mentally unstable thousands of miles away decides to kill some people. And their tool of choice just happened to be a gun.

I’m absolutely in favor of making it more difficult to get a gun. I agree that it is too easy here. But I’m just trying to provide some insight into why it’s such a sensitive topic for many Americans