The Cyclical Nature of the Gun Rights in the United States

The gun-rights debate in the United States is as old as the United States as a whole and will likely outlive all of us. To Republicans the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution and is a matter of Tradition and Individual rights, some republicans may also compare the right to use guns as a cultural difference between the United States and much of the world due to America being born out of a Revolution against the British. 

To Democrats, on the other hand, it seems evident that keeping gun laws lax allows misanthropes to go out and commit extremist acts, or allows the mentally ill to take themselves out in the most brutal of ways imaginable. To Democrats, it is not a matter of whether the 2nd amendment should exist. Almost no democrats, elected or voters believe that the 2nd amendment should be taken away. Of the Democrats polled and the voting history of elected officials, it's a matter of safeguarding responsible gun owners, protecting the public from misanthropes, and protecting the mentally ill from doing irreparable damage to themselves. 

The Democrats ultimately view the 2nd amendment as a matter of Empathetic safeguarding and not outright abolition. The Republicans see any infringement on one's ability to own or use their guns as equivalent to the abolishment of that right in the first place, regardless of the strength of said legislation. 

It's clear to me as someone outside of the United States that the Democrats are the more reasonable of the two sides. There are mass shootings, thus to prevent life from being taken, you restrict the types of people who can buy or use firearms. Don't come at me for being Anti-gun. I'm not, I come from a family in the United Kingdom that has firearms licenses, and as a kid when visiting family in the highlands, would go out and fire firearms.

The right's self-preservation of gun rights

The United States is plagued by Mass shootings every year, the American proverb "There are two constants in life, The sun, and taxes" should really be "There are three constants in life, The Sun, Taxes, and mass shootings". America has more mass shootings a year than every other country in the world has had in the past 100 years. 

So the question that many Democrats have, and many independents have. You would think will all these mass shootings, you'd see Republicans change their mind because they have been impacted by a mass shooting? Well, the Corporate gun crowd in the United States knows that if you were to be honest about who the mass shooter is, what they believe, and who they targeted (if anyone), then yes, some republicans would change their minds on guns. 

So news media, like Fox News are rarely honest about who is committing the mass shootings. They don't want to portray Republicans in a bad light and they don't want to stifle their ratings. This is why you often see Fox news speculating about the mass shooter, often whilst the mass shooting is still ongoing. That the mass shooter is a member of Antifa or is actually on the radical left. Once the police announce the political reasoning of the mass shooter, Fox back peddles and acts like the mass shooting didn't happen.

You also tend to see more Pro-gun ads and such following a mass shooting, because the corporate gun crowd wants to lean into the conspiracy that the mass shooters are leftists or are a false flag, etc. Because so long as they angle the argument through an endless conspiracy, they keep selling guns and keep raking in massive profits. 

As for any Republicans who do agree with Democrats on common-sense gun laws, they are often shunned, dogpiled, or completely ignored by corporations. If they run for office anywhere in a red state, they are seen as unamerican or have all sorts of unfair, unkind assessments leveled at them, and some even have death threats, and assassination attempts leveled at them as well. 

As you can see, the gun crowd is cyclical. A mass shooting happens, they speculate and sow the seeds of doubt, gaslight the public, glance over the truth, advertise a lie and manipulate the truth of a mass shooting to actually sell more guns. 

Is there an easy answer to this? No there isn't, there might be some areas that the Democrats and Republicans can iron out some regulations state-side and Federally. But so long as the NRA keeps being allowed to financially back candidates. The Gun debate will continue to benefit and mass shootings will continue to happen.