When living in Germany my parents came for a visit. We drove all over the place. After a visit to Munich my dad wanted to drive on the autobahn and I let him. He then complained about the restrictive gun laws in Germany. My mom told him we have restrictive speed laws and the Germans don't. It's just a matter of different priorities.

Americans have never been burdened with an abundance of common sense.
Especially when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Aw hell, or the rest of the Constitution, for that matter.

While the majority of MOTHERS in the US would like strict gun laws, the NRA is a very powerful organization that contributes heavily to the campaign funds of legislators, in order to keep the laws as they are. Nearly every elected legislator in Washington is in the pocket of the NRA and corporations. This is why corporations now contribute only 7% of the “tax base”, when they used to contribute 35%. The Republicans gave even more favorable tax advantages to corporations and the ultra-wealthy under the Administration of 45. And they now are working to keep it that way.

The culture has shifted in the US and I don't entirely understand the process.

I grew up in very rural AZ just inside the Navajo reservation in AZ and guns were part of the culture but they were never used in anger.
My 1st grade class had a locker where kids would drop off their weapons during the day (I never brought one). My father never let us have BB guns because they were too much a toy. He did give me a rifle when I was 8 and taught us how to handle it.

In the late 60s I happened to ask my grandmother in Miami one year for a little toy shooting gallery for Christmas and she combed Miami/Ft. Lauderdale for gun toys and could not find any. She sent us the closest thing she found.
It sounds ridiculous now -- that I would ask that and that it wouldn't be found -- that sort of thing has become pervasive now.

Looking back over the last few decades, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. Having outgrown guns as a teenager(that was the last time I owned one), I'm very disappointed in our society.

I’m perfectly happy with our gun laws.