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Our version of gun control honestly wouldn't suit you culturally
The reason why the change was so rapid here was because the counterargument was "but guns are fun and sometimes useful for killing animals and we weren't going to buy the stupid ones anyway." People decided after Port Arthur that it wasn't a good enough argument for letting people have anything better than a .22
In America people buy guns to protect themselves from all those crazy people out there who have guns, that's a consumer behaviour that you can't alter overnight through regulation.