A thoughtful and well reasoned response, my young Romanian friend! 🙂

"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."

We are in full agreement. It is beyond dispute that bad things can come from almost any direction. Freedom of speech ( freedom + responsibility = liberty, freedom - responsibility = anarchy), ownership of guns, etc. How do we solve these problems inherent in human nature?

A couple of common sayings here, as illustrations:

1. "Guns don't kill people. People kill people!"
   
   
2. When it becomes illegal to own guns, only criminals will own them!
   
   

I really have no comment about the differences in gun-based crime in your country vs. mine. I just don't know anything about those details. I will simply say, in support of your point about statistics, that you will almost never hear in the news anything about the beneficial aspects of gun ownership. And any bad news is amplified to the max ...

Why?

My answer is the philosophical adversaries of what America stands for desperately want to disarm the American people. Again, I would personally say that is beyond dispute. Which only leaves us with asking ourselves why that would be?

As for "hate" speech? Don't get me started ... 😉

As a closely related matter (IMHO) to our "conversation" and since you both express an interest in history and appear to be a recent university graduate, you may be interested in glancing through what Wikipedia has to say about "Critical Theory." Properly understood, I believe adherents and disciples of this "social" philosophy are relentlessly advancing their agenda.

In our "new normal" post-COVID world, I would go so far as to say their advancement of this agenda is being accelerated. To what end? I don't personally believe we have long to wait to find out ...

P.S. If you don't mind my saying so, your command of the English language seems quite good! I doubt that has anything to do with the use of any sort of translation tool, but I could be wrong on that ...