TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖 on Nostr: When this nation was built guns were a life necessity. No law, lot of dangers from ...

When this nation was built guns were a life necessity. No law, lot of dangers from different groups, from a harsh nature. Staying alive was not easy. So I understand how the gun culture was born. The problem is that everything else evolved and changed, but the sense of protection a gun give to many people is still stronger.
Simply too many "believe" that only a gun will protect them not even realizing that the main threat is coming from too many guns available to everybody, including weak people, easily scared people, mental ill people, etc.
What can go wrong ?
Lack of education, too much fear in so many people, arrogance to believe to be the best, believing in gods that endorse the use of guns as divine right and lot of other similar bullshit, did create a "popular culture" where the gun is the common denominator.
Guns are now a symbol for power, for self-determination, for faith and nationalistic identity. I think one could write a book on that.