@xianc78 @bonifartius >Europeans probably look at all the mass shootings in America or American hate groups like the WBC and come to the conclusion that freedoms like gun rights and free speech aren't worth it.
Which is funny, because they have trucks of peace and such happening over there. Part of what keeps America safe and gives its politicians pause before they start getting too oppressive is the notion that enough people with guns will stick up for themselves when push comes to shove. Even in World War 2, Japan admitted to themselves that any attempt at a land invasion of the US would go horribly because they couldn't pass by a window without risking a gun barrel poking out of it.

Also, WBC are grifters and nothing more. They're all lawyers and their purpose is to rile people up and then sue them should one of them get assaulted. People in the Great Plains have caught onto this and wall off their protest spaces with makeshift walls of tarpaulin and PVC and surround them with motorcycles revving their engines to drown out their shouting. But I suppose when a significant part of your worldview stems from longing for the embrace of a boot sole to your throat, you'd rather scream for daddy government to ban this sick filth and require your worldview be administered on everyone else, one riot baton at a time.