General Discussion

To me, a pacifist and a veteran, the root problem is a culture that pits one against another, and TBH, on totally meaningless grounds. Idiot politics or dogma and the usual manipulative garbage. Mostly racism and so on and so on.

The problem is rooted in an adversarial culture.

I have posted on this and will continue to post on this. I saved up a raft of great articles to share on this topic.

When people oppose others, the matter of weapon is whatever the culture tolerates (or even promotes)

Other countries have very low gun violence rates.

Games, by their nature are "me or you".
Many sports are excessively violent.

I suggest reading "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse.
I have read a lot about pervasive games (non-violent) and cooperative games.
But the culture promotes others.

Be part of a cultural change.
The NRA turned a mostly peaceful nation into an armed mob.
They did it for the money.

Money talks, when wise people don't.