@The Crimson Ghost
"AND that you've dumped the majority of your violent criminals here, centuries ago. They've just been continuing their bloodline."
Sins of the father argument? really?
"I suspect that some of the gun worship also stems from the fact that the US does not have a pre-gun history. Most of the world does;"
The gun wasn't much by the time America was colonized, the Longbow still ruled.The fact that European guns (Knives, Saws, Plows, Axes, stoves,livestock rearing, harnesses, wagons, etc.) ruled early Americas coveted products is hardly the fault of the fatherlands, y'all came from there too.
"The biggest reason that Europe has significantly less gun violence is because of more effective gun laws,"
In much of Europe, and Canada, guns are not only just as available (and one's all you need you needle dicked Americans with over twenty) they're actually within every household without the atricious death count America racks up every year. There's a huge difference between a culture where guns are legally accepted (many countries) required in every household (several countries)and the gun-worshipping no quarter unreasonable bullshit that goes down regularlly in Florida and Texas.
I'm from Canada. we know wherefrom we speak. America has a beyond serious love of showing strength without substance and talking total shit with bullets. Many countries have the capability to go full retard with guns, America has proven to be a breeding ground for it.