That sort of murder rate would never been tolerated over here, nor in Canada. The problem you have in the US is the culture behind the guns, way more than the guns themselves.
The United States have a larger population than the UK and Canada together, in fact larger than whole Europe except for the Russian part, so it's no wonder there are many murders. But you have a point; the USA
is a more violent place, so that part of the analysis is correct. So you admit that it's not the guns themselves that are a problem?
I do know one thing about our decision to ban handguns
Did the British people decide to ban pistols and revolvers? No. Your government did, without asking you. How democratic is that?
(note not guns in general - a 14 year old can get a license if they have a genuine reason and are adequately supervised.) is that we have not had a school shooting since. Even more surprisingly you might find - it was a conservative government who banned them.
Why would an unpunished citizen have to prove a "need" for a gun at all in a true democracy? And the license is for hunting or shooting in a fucking shooting club; you're not allowed to own and keep a pistol at your home. And it's not surprisingly that a conservative government (in British vocabulary) bans guns; they want that "privilege" for the state. How many school shootings were there in comparison to the amount of guns compared to traffic maims and kills in comparison to the amount of cars? With the same "reasoning", cars should have been banned already around 1920 or so, but the anti-gun propaganda is neither honest nor logical.
Really does not surprise me - we have had cases over here of equally sick kids, not as frequently mind. The case that springs to mind is the Bulger one - over 10 years on its still bandied about. I know people whom if enabled sufficiently, could be pushed over that line. The difference between our society and your one is we don't enable it as much.
In Japan a knife armed boy managed to kill 7 people. Time for knife ban?
Power does that to most people to an extent - which is essentially what it boils down to. The sick act is getting the power in the first place, then one leads to another as every boundary comes tumbling down.
Why do you think people become cops and soldiers? Because they're great humanists? Whenever someone is stronger, they abuse their power. The average cop or soldier is much more of a potential psychopath and power-abuser than the average citizen. But you have no problem with "the state" having the theoretical posibility to kill all of its citizens or enslave them...
The
really sick act is making 99.99% of the people potential slaughter sheeps and have the stomach to call it a democracy. If you literally want true equality, no-one can be allowed having an advantage in physical force at all. All must have the same ability to arm themselves for defence.
But you don't get it, because you view the "state" as an all good parent of some kind and the citizens like actual children who can never be treated like free and independent individuals and never trusted to just be let alone on their own. But you trust the "states", that literally have the power to eradicate most of life on the whole planet within minutes...
Move over here then. Statistically you are a lot safer.