Why is the US so conservative?

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'Liberal' gun laws is a conservative position.

Guns are heavily restricted in most of the rest of the world. And wrongfully so.

Why should guns be unrestricted?

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I absolutely disagree that everything should be legal first, I think in the extreme opposite direction.  Things shouldn't be legal unless we fully understand the repercussions of that on society.  That's the basis of so many problems in the US, we wait until it becomes a problem to act.  How about we just relax for a second instead of acting like 3-year-olds saying "gimme, gimme, I want it NOW".  The same goes for economics, not just social things.

And so your argument is that it's too late and we should just all have guns since some bad guys already do?  How about we take measures to make sure no more bad guys get guns instead of making it infinitely easier.  Don't you think moving in the direction of no guns makes more sense than exacerbating the issue by making more guns available?  I agree you should have the option to have one as a law-abiding, peaceful citizen.  But you do not under any circumstances need assault weapons or multiple weapons.  Nor do you need them immediately or without a check to make sure you are indeed a peaceful law-abiding citizen.  I don't know very many people who want all out bans on guns, just measured to make it much more difficult to buy one.  Guns are meant to cause extreme bodily harm or kill, that's not something you should just be able to stroll to the corner store and buy.  We as a country have proven that we can't handle that.