>>119137736I will agree with you that "gun culture" is disgusting and out of control (there's "hot pink" handguns for sale. It's a fucking deadly weapon, not a fashion statement, fuck off with that shit).
The fact remains that sometimes you're in the middle of nowhere and there's fucking dangerous animals (I was thinking more coyote, because that's what I have personal experience with, but sure, hogs). "We'll just make it stupidly hard to get any firearm, we can decrease crime if we can get country-wide consensus on this" sounds great in a city, where your chief concern is a dude coming at you with a gun, but it's not going to sound as awesome in rural areas.
And we can get into the nitty gritty of the whole problem (as people have many many many times) but the core problem is that there are just very obvious differences in the sorts of things you have real reason to be worried about in different parts of the country.
