Because to get any sort of gun control you'll have to loosen some of the perceived liberal ideas that these people think you liberals hold and that they don't agree with: The world seen as one large commune = communism. In short, they don't trust you, Janice. The gun represents one big middle finger of individual freedom in their minds, not to be relinquished, which they equate with taking away their nationhood and turning them into a one-world amoeba, which is what they now see Europe as.
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