crockett

Actually there is a great divide between rural America and Urban America. Anyone that has lived in a major US city knows that most people do no carry guns there. It just wouldn't work out well and generally civilized people understand this.

Now on the other hand in big cities and crime ridden areas, criminals will have illegally or potentially even legally acquired guns.. This is why people in urban settings are usually against guns. Guns cause a lot of complexity in a urban environment and these people shouldn't have to carry guns to protect themselves in a civilized society.

For fucks sake even towns in the Wild West banned guns in their towns because of all the deaths when drunken assholes met other drunken assholes. It wasn't just because of a few billy the kid gun slingers, but random everyday assholes shooting each other because they had guns on their sides and very little law. This is why many sheriffs were as bad as the gun slingers.. Due to this many towns would ban guns and collect them by force from anyone that entered the town. This is American history that the NRA nutters love it to ignore and forget about..

Then you have rural America, which has a completely different experance with guns. These people are dealing with much smaller groups of people and they usually know one another. They know when someone is there out of place or not a local. It's a completely different environment but the same gun rules are used for both types of places...

If every asshole in New York was armed with a gun, then it would be like watching dumb Russian dash cam videos of idiots pulling guns on each other as a daily routine...