Hi, first of all, thank you for taking some time to talk to me, I really appreciate it. I think I'm young enough to be you son, sounds about right, especially since you've just had your 44th wedding anniversary. I'm 23 so please excuse my lack of experience and knowledge if you spot it in my arguments 😄.

I do agree that probably most Romanians and perhaps most Europeans do not study American history in depth so most opinions regarding gun ownership come from a lack of understanding of historical events. I am a little bit more interested about American history and culture than some of my compatriots so I am familiar with the Second Amendment and I get the historical context and the basic reasoning behind its conception.

I am a big fan of both the First and the Second Amendments, and I hate the fact that most European countries reserve the right to suppress speech if it's deemed to be hatespeech.

If I were an American citizen I would stand up for people's rights to bear arms, in a legal framework with background checks which are already in place. I still do support this right, even though I don't have it.

However, I don't think I contradict myself when I say that the US has more crimes that involve guns than a country like Romania, proportionally to the population. I'm not saying that Romania is a more peaceful country, but most crimes don't involve guns. You can get a gun here as well, but since it's not a right guaranteed by the constitution you have meet certain criteria to qualify for gun ownership, ownership you can lose at any moment when the state decides so.

Why I've mentioned gun crime in the previous post? It's not because I fear it, if I were an US citizen I would probably never encounter it in my life, statistically. I'm mentioning it just because it's a more common problem than in my country. I hope I make sense at least a little bit. All countries have their shortcomings and compared to Romania, gun violence, though rare, is something that is definitely more prevalent in US and thus, for me, it turns into a shortcoming.

I don't have the brainpower to think of a solution, if there is any, I think like many things, gun violence is just the abuse of something that was supposed to be good. Just like freedom of speech can be abused and I don't support any restrictions on it, guns can be abused just as easily, but I don't think banning guns is beneficial in any way.

Thanks again for taking time to have this conversation and for offering me bits of your wisdom and insight into American history and culture, which I have no doubt you know more of than I do. 😄