Americans as a whole are so allergic to government doing anything that we can't even get a national ID system nor a centralized database of gun sales or ownersh

Americans as a whole are so allergic to government doing anything that we can't even get a national ID system nor a centralized database of gun sales or ownership. The bogeyman of evil Big Government, privacy, and censorship gets invoked. It's fine if the Free Market does it, so Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft, et al get a free pass.