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Forgive my ignorance, but I have a question about this. In my country, we tend to associate America with a lot of DIY justice, from vigilantism to witch hunting, and you can still find the stereotype of Americans hunting down witches/communists/abusers/etc. in localized media. Yet nobody is witch hunting against gun owners?
I don't know, I look at many of you and think that yelling "that guy's a gun owner" sounds like it would have more merit and success than "that guy is an abuser". Gun owning sounds like the one thing I can find feasible to do in the form of mob justice, and nobody does it. And here you guys are descending into chaos because bullets are a cultural value to you.
Because there are 10s of millions of gun owners in this country, if not more. Very, very few of them commit crimes with guns.
I don't think angry mobs are a common thing here, but setting that aside-gun owners tend to shoot people who are hunting them. Angry mobs are not brave.