text: Many Americans, including many who claim to be "christian," worship false idols. The golden calves they worship, are wealth, celebrity, and guns. Even the mildest suggestion that limiting civilian access to guns whose purpose is to kill as many people as possible as fast as possible is seen as a violation of the 2nd amendment.  The gun lovers have been fed a false narrative about the "dangers" they face to justify the gun culture.  The reality is that the average American is in greater danger from angry white men with semi-automatic weapons than they are from immigrants (lower crime rates than native born Americans), or from terrorists. The US rate of gun deaths is many, many times greater than all other DEVELOPED nations, on a par with some central American, African and mid-east countries. 
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html
  http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrorism-disease-accidents-2017-1