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165. Wrong.

All those countries DO NOT have the "same societal problems" we do. That's a serious misrepresentation. Look at income disparities, extreme racial division (abetted and exploited by politicians), dwindling health resources, lack of social services ... the list goes on and on. We are declining toward Third World status, and you think it's all because of guns? I'm not defending THAT status quo.

The obvious difference between us and other countries? Try culture, history, economics, and politics, for starters. Your facile comparison games require blinders to the reality of the comparisons.

You seem to think the an AWB would solve the problem of murderous violence in America. I'm telling you that it wouldn't amount to more than a molecule of H2O in the proverbial bucket. Your myopia on the nature of the illness facing America is shocking. You've rolled the whole problem up into one fetishistic totem, the AR-15. The reality is much more complex. Do you really think that school shootings would stop if ARs disappeared? If you do, you are dangerously deluded

I am not ashamed of my beliefs. You do not have the moral high ground here.