The past - no shortage of American Gun Violence, with the Gun Culture, and high rates of ownership...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
(interesting that Australia is listed on par with Mexico... look at what Mexico is going through... but weapons are probably flooding in from the USA...???)

I was intrigued to watch The American President painfully select his words in some of his interviews... Flip side of the coin... American Military... A very large defence force, which is active away from its shores... also responsible for moderately high level of deaths...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel


In concept, there are some parallels to Mining, and Oil & Gas...
Mining - many people don't want coal mining to occur... but many of those people aren't prepared to sit and freeze in the dark... (Solar and wind do not stack up on base power load, with our current high consumption rates!)
Oil & Gas - same as mining... people don't want oil or gas rigs off their shore lines, but many people aren't prepared to swap a car for a bicycle...
Guns - similar, many American's will fully support gun ownership restrictions on one hand, but they may also want to retain their "right" to bear arms... own guns... even the president was eluding to tougher background searches on people before they could own a gun.... this would only be the first baby step... I would think...

The Future:
Cars - Micro-light electric cars
Guns in America - I expect they will slowly phase in several layers of beurocracy... but I expect it will take them about 20 years to instill big changes... change the way people think...

What do you think...???