This is both 100% true and also used as a throw away line bybthosecwhomadvocate against gun control. Couldn’t we work on both at the same time?

I don’t think anyone needs a gun unless they are using it in their profession. I spent 16 years in the army and I’ve seen what guns can do first hand. No civilian needs that tool. But I’m not American and it’s not my country, so if American want guns then that’s their choice. I still can’t see how this justifies regulations that are so lax that even criminals and the mentally ill can walk into Walmart and buy an AR 15 is just ludicrous .