Tearex, Lies, untruths and misrepresentations are not worth defending.
Free speech is not defended by abusing it.
The fact the incidence of U.S. gun violence is is so out of sync with comparable countries is indefensible.
As is your attempt at distraction there too.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”