The United States has a very serious gun problem. For instance, look at Switzerland, with one of the highest number of guns per capita but with relatively little gun crime. And in one year in Australia guns were used to murder only 35 people, 39 in England and Wales, 194 in Germany, 200 in Canada, and almost 9,500 in the U.S.
So, what is the root cause for this in America? Can it all be blamed on the NRA? True, they are a powerful lobbying organization, but this problem goes far deeper, to a gun culture not shared by the rest of the world. An obsession about guns. The Supreme Court legalizing the distortion of the Second Amendment.
And we have Jeff Knox, director of The Firearms Coalition, writing, “American’s gun culture is as normal and mainstream as it’s belief in God.”
Eliot Chandler
Augusta
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