What Europeans don't get is how one of the largest, most powerful nations on earth experiences frequent random mass shootings, targeting just about anyone including children of 6-7 and thinks that rights to have guns trumps doing ANYTHING to stop it happening as regularly??
You can bang on about your rights but what about responsibilities? The responsibilities of everyone to try and make a safer country to live in. How can it be as cut and dry as "We can't stop 100% of all mass shootings, so let's not even bother trying to cut that figure down AT ALL."
This isn't the big evil government taking away your rights out of sheer malice. This is people in office trying to protect more people from senseless, selfish and cowardly killings, knowing they have a duty to act in everybody's interests, not just gun owners.
If the number of shootings was only 0.5-1% of what it is now and people started trying to impose stricter controls out of the blue, then you'd have a point.
But talking like it's a completely unjustified attack on your freedoms is absurd.