Mat Bradshaw on Nostr: Apologies if it appeared I meant all Americans, or even a majority, I know this is ...

Apologies if it appeared I meant all Americans, or even a majority, I know this is absolutely not the case. I have worked for an American company for 20 years and have had close relationships with scores of Americans. In all this time I've only come across two gun nuts.

In the UK we have our own boundless share of assholes. Brexit and the persistent popularity of hard right political figures are proof of this.

My point, more finely, is the fact that despite the horror of what gun ownership has done and continues to do, American politicians are frozen in fear of acting to change this, so it just continues and worsens. It seems crazy from an outsiders point of view that this "right to bear arms" isn't really seriously questioned. All of the wringing of hands, thoughts and prayers, every time, seem hollow.

The old phrase about the definition of insanity is taking the same action (in this case inaction) over and over again and expecting a different result is written in the blood of children, it's heartbreaking.

It's like watching an old friend drinking themselves to death, in complete denial they have a problem as drinking is part of their culture, their right.

Again, apologies if I came across as condescending or presumptuous, that really was not my intention, I was agreeing with you and trying to add some foreign perspective.