Musket... very well, but it does leave those who don't NEED to be 'provoked' with a confused impression of your actual feelings. That "first bit" is worded in such a way that it felt like you were painting with far too broad a brush.

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Big Al...
"in the USA - there are the equivalent of a small town being shot most years. I don't know how you put up with it".

"Put up with it" implies that universal choice is involved. Some of us do NOT put up with it, in the sense that we argue, vote, donate and lobby in as many ways as we can to stop, lessen and restrict the proliferation of guns!
As I say again & again, our Constitution was written in 1789, and the 2nd amendment has been interpreted ever since by those who WANT guns to mean they can have almost anything.
The other problem is that 'states rights', which gives an unfortunate amount of power of conservative states to dodge federal laws, is also embedded in the Constitution, and the process of amending the Constitution to change either of those awkward situations is almost impossible under the Catch-22 rules for doing so.

I suspect that only some enormous tragedy, such as some group shooting up Congress & the NRA on the same day, would get attention... and most of the NRA would simply say it proves THEIR point.