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134. No, I didn't miss the point. All those countries have the same societal problems we do.

Yet they don't have mass shootings like we do. Australia has had no mass shootings in the 20 years since their ban. The other countries have the odd incident or terrorist attack, but no mass shootings like we do. Not even close. Norway's one horrific incident has a US connection. Breivik bought ten 30-round magazines for for his semi-automatic carbine rifle from a United States supplier. He ended up killing 69 at a youth camp and injured 110. That was Norway's 9-11, they memorialize it every year. Nothing like that had happened there before or since, unlike in the US.  The massacre last October in Las Vegas killed 58 people and wounded 489, and we've already forgotten about it, shocked into distraction by the current gun massacre.  

What is the obvious difference between us and the other countries? Unlike them, we are awash in guns, and anyone can buy an AR.

Guess what, I do live in fear of my gun nut neighbors shooting me. I do live in fear of my 14 year old getting shot at school. I do live in fear of my kid going over to a friend's house whose gun nut parents have guns lying around and someone getting accidentally shot. I had a high school friend who was accidentally shot, and another who committed suicide with the family gun. Because the guns were there. I have two in-laws who survived the Vegas shooting and are now suffering from PTSD.

You should be ashamed of yourself for defending this status quo and being comfortable with it.