I think you're oversimplifying a much more complicated issue. You're acting like the only meaningful difference between the United States and countries like Japan, Singapore, Australia and the UK is gun ownership. It isn't, those countries have different cultures, demographics, immigration policies, crime problems, legal systems and attitudes toward government and law enforcement. Pointing to a country with fewer guns and less violence doesn't automatically prove that fewer guns caused the lower violence. Correlation isn't causation. Take Japan and Singapore. They don't just have strict gun laws. They have very strict immigration policies, strong social order, low gang activity, harsh penalties for crime and cultures that are very different from the United States. If you're going to compare countries you have to look at the whole picture not just one variable. And if more guns automatically caused more crime, then the millions of law-abiding gun owners in America would somehow be the problem. Most gun owners never commit a crime in their lives. You also mention the Second Amendment being written in 1791 as if constitutional rights expire when technology changes. The First Amendment was written before the internet, television, and social media, yet nobody argues free speech only applies to printing presses. At the end of the day, people own firearms for different reasons: self-defense, hunting, sport shooting and because they believe an armed citizenry is an important safeguard against government overreach. You may disagree with that philosophy, but it's a legitimate argument not something that can be dismissed by comparing the U.S. to a handful of countries with completely different histories, cultures, and legal systems. The issue is a lot more complicated than "fewer guns = less crime."
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