Guns and freedom and Taylor Swift

I have heard gun owners carry on about “freedom.”  I’ve actually heard some say that if they are prevented from carrying their guns, they will lose their freedom.  

If you listed all the democracies in the world...Canada, France, Japan, Norway, Portugal, New Zealand, and more...people are “free” in all of those countries, and you don’t see people carrying guns around.  Those countries don’t have “shooter drills” in schools.  They might have an occasional nut shooting a large number of people, but they don’t have mass shootings multiple times in a month.  

Those countries have freedom of religion, fair elections, and free speech, but only in the United States do you have one after another after another mass killing.  The House of Representatives, now controlled by Republicans, won’t do a thing about this, but by god they can pass laws when there is a problems with Taylor Swift concert tickets.  The Senate won’t do a thing about this because they have the outmoded tradition of a “filibuster” and a representational system in which Wyoming with a few hundred thousand people has the same power as California with almost 40 million.

I have a really bad cold right now, and I am in a terrible mood but dammit, there is something fundamentally wrong with this love affair with guns and mass murders.