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This is an easy question to answer, just visit any rural area of the USA. Everyone already has a gun in rural USA, and it's fine. Gun violence is rare and not normally anything to worry about. We are all in far more danger from car accidents, bathtub accidents, other similar accidents, and unhealthy diet-related illnesses like heart disease and cancer. Deaths by homicide using a firearm are not even in the to 10 causes of death in the USA.
The way that Americans act like life is cheap and there's an acceptable amount of death is weird to me. Here's some data to counter your point.
None of what you said is related to what I said. I never acted like life is cheap or that there is an acceptable amount of deaths. I simply produced some facts for perspective.
The fact is that life is very safe in the USA, regardless of what you or anyone thinks about it, and gun violence is very rare overall. 99.99999% of Americans are never affected by gun violence, so you'll have to excuse me for not being worried about it.
34 Americans are affected by gun violence?
Dude, you blow through that budget with one particularly quiet afternoon in Detroit.
If things are stable at the current rate, 2.4% of Americans get killed or hospitalized by gunshots in their lifetime. Those affected includes everyone related to those people as well as everyone who is injured but not hospitalized and everyone who is merely physically coerced or intimidated by guns. And honestly it should even include those who are treated roughly by cops because those cops have to be emotionally and functionally ready to handle gun violence at all times, those who must severely change their lives to avoid the risk of gun violence, and those who live in justified fear without being directly personally affected.
A more realistic estimate would be that 75% of Americans are not deeply traumatized by gun violence, 30% of Americans don't suffer actively because of gun violence, and 1% of Americans don't spend their lives afraid of gun violence (including the toxic conservative bravado as pretty transparent "making yourself look intimidating to scare off the threat" behavior).