Fact is Americans keep buying guns because they're (rightly) terrified of all the Americans buying guns.
Whether they then use those guns to shoot themselves in an impulsive act that may not have happened if they'd had to take the time to find somewhere to tie a rope or their teenage son opens the gun safe and tops himself …
Fact is Americans keep buying guns because they're (rightly) terrified of all the Americans buying guns.
Whether they then use those guns to shoot themselves in an impulsive act that may not have happened if they'd had to take the time to find somewhere to tie a rope or their teenage son opens the gun safe and tops himself after his girlfriend dumps him or their toddler reaches into Mommy's handbag and inadvertently blew her head off in a supermarket or a dispute with a neighbor escalated to a lethal shootout or a cop blew him away because he couldn't see what he was reaching towards during a traffic stop and knew a lot of Americans have guns in their cars, the toe-tagged outcome is the same and the cause is the same. People substituting firepower for communication, lethality for security and weaponry for trust.
And your point?
Fact is Americans keep buying guns because they're (rightly) terrified of all the Americans buying guns.
Whether they then use those guns to shoot themselves in an impulsive act that may not have happened if they'd had to take the time to find somewhere to tie a rope or their teenage son opens the gun safe and tops himself after his girlfriend dumps him or their toddler reaches into Mommy's handbag and inadvertently blew her head off in a supermarket or a dispute with a neighbor escalated to a lethal shootout or a cop blew him away because he couldn't see what he was reaching towards during a traffic stop and knew a lot of Americans have guns in their cars, the toe-tagged outcome is the same and the cause is the same. People substituting firepower for communication, lethality for security and weaponry for trust.