Listen, I love traveling, including to places with more draconian gun laws. I don't advocate US gun laws in Germany or France, and I don't advocate European-st

Listen, I love traveling, including to places with more draconian gun laws. I don't advocate US gun laws in Germany or France, and I don't advocate European-style gun laws in the US. It's nice to have that sort of heterogeneity in the world. The US is a wonderful place in most ways. We have 300 million guns over here, and typically around 9k gun murders per year, almost all of which are unrelated to "gun culture" and instead driven by drug prohibition. There are 7-9 cities which have been ravaged by our idiotic policies of drug prohibition. In those places, you'll find a murder rate similar to Russia. For the most part, these are still wonderful places to visit - you can walk around Chicago or Baltimore or Detroit and meet peaceful, friendly, happy, well-adjusted people for days. The only top-tier danger city in the US which I find to have little redeeming value is Washington DC - I find that place cringey, self-righteous, and terrifying. In all other places in the US (more than 99.99% by land mass), we have a murder rate similar to Western Europe. I think we're a pretty good example of how to be armed and remain peaceful. Things are fine here. Making these sorts of generalizations based on a minuscule number of high-profile data points is exactly the problem with American public policy in the first place.