It's easier to scare the sheep who rely on those in authority to protect them. Not everyone is responsible enough or have the guts to defend themselves. There's been a concerted effort to make weapons 'scary'. demystifying firearms makes them socially acceptable. One only has to look back to the 60s to see shooting sports in schools where they had rifle teams. OH and school shootings really didn't happen back then. HMM.
Nobody in power wants their citizens to have an effective means of removing them from power, because inevitably, the people in power want more power, and when the burden for the common man becomes too much, we get situations like in Sri Lanka when they boot the bastards out.
For every "mass shooting" (the definition has been changed so that there's more of them, shocker) There are thousands of instances where a gun is used to defend life or property. Often times it doesn't even have to be discharged to be effective. But since those stories don't fit the narrative, they're ignored by the MSM. Any more it doesn't much matter how many times the facts back up the wisdom of the 2nd Amendment.. how they're treating the guy that killed the wanna be mass shooter in that mall is sickening, disturbing, and all matter of media buzzwords... but they cannot grasp the concept of a regular person shooting a bad guy. They're always looking for ex military or ex police or undercover cop.. some authority figure please save us! ....hey kids in Uvalde how ya doin being saved by all those armored police? ...oh.. right... they wanted a body count with kids to horrify the nation so that legislation could be passed.
The First is right behind it. Cant really say certain words without media and public backlash. Violence and cyber attacks against anyone who would DARE criticize, mock, or question certain things or people is encouraged by politicians and their media lapdogs alike. Socialist Media Social Media is cancer and in a sick, sadistic sort of way.. I find it funny how there had to be a damn 'study' on cyber bullying and the negative impact SM (lol) has on teenagers. It's also interesting to see that younger people are getting away from "Smart phones" and going back to regular and flip phones. .. but I digress.
Make no mistake, the constant erosion of any and all rights is insidious and constant. Only recently have the filth in Washington (ironic that WASHING-TON is dirty) become blatantly, directly, abrasively, and raucously vocal about their intentions to wipe out your rights, and they're proud of it. How any American with a shred of intellectual honesty can vote for those scumbags now that they've shown naked aggression against We The People is beyond me. At this point, they could probably show us where the gulags and concentration camps are going, the blueprints, and give us a time frame and people would STILL not care.