Indeed.
We are the only nation so attached to the supposed “right” to bear arms that our laws abet assassins, professional criminals, berserk murderers, and political terrorists at the expense of the general orderly population—and yet we remain, and are apparently determined to remain, the most passive of comparable countries in the matter of gun control.
Many otherwise intelligent Americans cling with pathetic stubbornness to the notion that the people’s right to bear arms is the greatest protection of their individual rights and a firm safeguard of democracy—without being in the slightest perturbed by the fact that no other democracy in the world observes any such “right” and that in some democracies in which citizens’ rights are rather better protected than in ours.
Edit: a better choice of word
