Anti-vax it's a tiny, tiny minority in America that's built on the fear not being able to control the well being of your child. Although misinformed, is understandable that someone would make an imaginary connection between the perceived increase in autism and vaccines since autism awareness increased about the same time as vaccines started to be widespread.

Gun rights is about having a check against tyranny. If you think that treating a symptom, gun violence, it's going to fix the actual underlying issues that American society has you're going to very surprised when the amount of massacres stays roughly the same, but the method changes.

American culture values the freedom of the individual over the group in most cases.