Politicians, gun manufacturers, NRA members, and gun advocates either share the responsibility for our gun culture and its consequences, or they do not possess free will. It can't be both. Being responsible means you're the author of your own actions. Being responsible is the test of freedom. We don't hold soldiers responsible for the consequences of information disclosed while under the duress of torture because they're not the author of that disclosure. They didn't possess the free choice to stay quiet. The insane or the significantly developmentally disabled are not held responsible in the court of law. They do not possess the fitness to be held responsible. The fitness to be held responsible qualifies a person to have acted freely of their own accord.
Who's responsible for our gun culture? There are 89 guns for every 100 people in our culture. The next closest country is Yemen with 55 guns for every 100 people. Yemen is in a civil war.
There are consequences to our gun culture. In America you’re 25 times more likely to be murdered by a gun than any other developed country. According to a Harvard/Northeastern study 400,000 guns are stolen a year. We drop our Children of at school in the morning with an unthinkable fear lingering in the back of our minds. Either politicians are responsible for the consequences of writing laws to make access to guns easier, and the NRA is responsible for the consequences of proliferating the message people’s lives are under threat and guns are a means of security, and gun manufacturers are responsible for the consequences of making guns, or if not them than some other entity is responsible for the consequences of our gun culture. If it’s the latter than those putting more guns on the street are coerced into it. They’re incapable of making a free choice when it comes to guns. They’re a slave to something else, whether that be culture, second amendment, power, or money.
