I've been intermittently active in the American culture war on this issue for decades. And I have specifically debunked that one, with a detailed statistical analysis, sadly lost, of murder rates and other violent crimes vs gun ownership in the USA and Australia, on the basis that cultural and social factors makes US and Aus about as close as any two nations on earth.

If guns are not a factor in the death rate, then you have to postulate that Americans are (I forget the number : between five and ten) times more intrinsically violent than Australians.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting: "What are we doing? What are we doing?...This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day." [_link] pic.twitter.com/TjJVoaFbRN

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 24, 2022

14 Cultural Differences between the USA and Australia

Bear in mind that 54% of Australians are officially classified as Anglo-Celtic and 92% are white.

History of America is shaped by slavery of Africans, the Civil War, KKK and racism, the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the Democratic leadership pf FDR and the back-lash of extreme rightwing Republicans founded in the Barry Goldwater era.

The division in US Congress, the hostility between Red and Blue has a crippling effect on American society. From my educated guess, Australia bears more resemblance with `Old Country' England than with the descendants of George Washington's America.

America is greatly divided between metropoles and the agricultural Midwest, the Deep South, the Plains into Texas and the Progressive West Coast.

Most remarkable difference was illustrated by the film Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore in his neighborhood Detroit, Great Lakes and crossing the border into Canada. A difference of day and night. American society and democracy is imploding.

Gun ownership and homocides, selected countries

The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution is here to stay.

I understand most gun deaths are ... suicides.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

Gun deaths also vary dramatically by type. The vast majority (77 percent) of white gun deaths are suicides; less than one in five (19 percent) is a homicide. These figures are nearly opposite in the black population, where only 14 percent of gun deaths are suicides but 82 percent are homicides.

Government Report From 1967 ...

Firearms & Violence In American Way of Life

Firearms have long been an important part of .American life. For many years the armed citizen-soldier was the country's first line of defense; the "Kentucky" long rifle opened the frontier; the Winchester repeater "won the West~'; and the Colt revolver·'made men equal."

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

'America is killing itself': world reacts with horror and incomprehension to Texas shooting [_link]

— The Guardian (@guardian) May 25, 2022

In the Netherlands, NRC Handelsblad made much the same points. It has become, the paper said, "a ritual, to which America is more accustomed than any other nation": a governor urging togetherness, a president quoting the Bible, politicians accusing each other of politicising, "and the countdown to the next one begins".