Gun control in the USA

We are attached to our guns.  It's a cultural thing that dates back to the founding of the country.  Many of us believe (us as in Americans, not us as in me too) that this is protection from our own government, and it is enshrined in our Constitution in the second amendment for that reason.  Some also feel that it preserves us from invasion as no one could possibly fight against millions of armed civilians.

The fear of crime is a self fulfilling prophecy.  We buy guns to protect ourselves from criminals who steal the guns and use them to commit crimes.  Then more guns are bought and more are stolen, and it keeps on growing.  With response times of over an hour when calling police in an emergency, people feel pretty helpless in many areas and get guns to protect themselves.  And in some areas this is necessary.

There are almost no laws prohibiting people from having guns, and many places have very liberal laws for carrying them in public.

The high murder rate is kind of skewed, in that most of the murders occur in the same places (large urban areas), while most of the country is very safe.  The city of Detroit alone has more homicides than some countries have in a civil war.

The school shootings have been sensationalized, and the actual homicide rate has been declining in schools (like schools should have a homicide rate to begin with, but that's us, a very violent culture) for a decade.  The more the news talks about it, though, the more "copycat" crimes we have.

So, in conclusion, it "seems" that way because it is an accurate reflection of reality.  One of the many reasons I like to communicate with people from other countries and cultures.  Sanity is in short supply here. 

I personally am not a fan of guns, however the logic behind having them available to the general public is that if they were against the law then most of the people who only use them as self-defense wouldn't be breaking the law to obtain them anyhow. Although criminals already having no respect for the law would obtain them anyhow and then the other citizens would be helpless against criminal attacks.

Why does it seem that Americans are so attached to their guns despite the killings in schools and the highest murder rate in the western world

Considering that the question is utterly bitter, from an utterly bitter person with a severely disabling mental condition, then it is probably best that he not be allowed to own guns.  Anyone who preaches such obvious lies is not sane.

Apparently, leftist propaganda has claimed yet another hapless (or witless) victim.

That alone makes it an absolute essential to remain armed and vigilant against the coming leftist atrocities.

Wild-eyed anti gun fanatics like Timothy Leary and Charles Mansaon have always been exactly the same therefore they do exactly the same horrific, bitter, violent things.  Only, this bully-boy wants a soft and defenseless target -- one that cannot shoot back. 

That is the real issue, not the leftist doubletalk that these wild eyed fanatics all screech against calm and sober citizens.  Since the news media is only a leftist propaganda machine anyway, then the credibility of anyone who watches that nonsense is also at zero.

Remember: it is only a matter of time.  What Hitler and Chalemange did can happen again.  That is, if we armed law abiding citizens let it.

When seconds count, the police are hours away, and often, don't come even when called.  That is because communist firebrands call them out on nuisance complaints, false alarms, and stage riots, just to be rebellious little nerds.

Then, these same deranged leftists demand to take away my only means of self defense and fabricate looney-tunes "statistics" to prove their insane "point."

Nobody ever raped an armed woman.

No rapist ever hesitates when they see one who is unarmed.