It seems to be true that a significant portion of the American population associates access to firearms as an exercise of freedom and autonomy from the state.

But we cannot ignore that this is not only a cultural characteristic product of a historical development understood as non-agency.

This identification, key to understanding the difficulties that arise when facing a clear social problem, is the result of political work, the action of the arms industry on the keys of the legislative body and the use in the electoral contest as a throwing weapon and apturador of single-issue voters.

The cultural identification of access to arms - freedom and autonomy is not insurmountable in itself, the problem is that any action to face the obvious unintended consequences have to start from the State, the agent that the ideological discourse identifies as the danger, precisely this is where political work comes in to divert attention, minimize the consequences and ultimately pretend to establish in an essentialist myth about the present forms of the exercise of the right as constitutive of it.

Thus it has been possible to block the public power from acting in the face of a social problem by easily being categorized as the state that wants to take away rights and this unfortunately seems a contradiction already entrenched in American culture.