guns

Would someone explain to me, a Canadian why most Americans I know are all about guns and using them. I've never had to use a gun, though I've fired one more then enough to know how to hit a target.

Up here in Canada, people just dont have guns. Well the police have them and you can pick one up downtown for 100$ with a clip. But we just dont hear/talk about it as much as I'm hearing about in the US.

Please lets not start a flaming war and I dont mean it to come off like that, I would truly like to know because no one has been able to explain it to me in a manner other then "its my right!" We have the right to own guns too, but we dont. I wonder why that is? And does the American view on guns increase the number of gun related crimes/deaths in the US?

Lets try to keep this mature, if you dont have something to add, dont say anything at all.