Agreed. Humans are dangerous which is why it's no surprise a country awash in guns has so many gun crimes. If guns didn't make people, whether violent or not, more deadly, there would be no reason to own one.
Gun control isn't a "punishment." You have traffic police observing drivers on the roads everyday. Yes, people slip through the cracks but it would be much worse if they weren't out there. No one considers the policing of all motorists to be punishment.
I don't thinks it's unreasonable, for instance, for people who own firearms and have minors in the household to occasionally receive visits from the state, county, or municipality to make sure they are actually responsibly storing their weapons.
The truth of the matter is we are the only nation in the developed world in which a significant percentage of the population think they have the right to own weapons of war. They do not.
Anybody who clings to and distorts the second amendment has some agenda other than the truth. It does not guarantee one the right to own an assault weapon outside the confines of a militia, the parameters of which were set in accordance with the meaning at the time. We don't have militias as a REGULAR part of everyday life in America. We had that before we had an organized, centrally commanded military.
NOBODY in any other developed country in the world worries about this shit. I taught in Detroit, and quit in part due to threats of gun violence. And kids DID bring guns to school many, many times and it is commonly swept under the rug.
In 3 years I couldn't even get a key to lock my room. All a killer really needed was a baseball bat or a claw hammer to wreak holy hell in my room. A teacher can only protect so many students at a time.
So it ain't just a suburban thing. We are stuck in the mindset of the cowboy (most of whom were actually black), the gangster, and the commando. These are the archetypes our culture worships. This is also why most people in civilized countries view Americans as babarians. We generally are just that.
This is in part why many of us think a nation with more guns than people is a normal nation. It is not.
We are deeply psychotic as a nation.
This is not hyperbole.
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