Here's my attempt at a rational explanation. Feel free to point out flaws.

> No, the real problem is mass shootings.

I think we should talk about mass killings not mass shootings.

Yes US has had a lot of mass shootings but it seems you have avoided the concentration camps and the Srebrenica etc that Europe has experienced during the last hundred years.

When people don’t have guns it is much easier to round them up and kill them.

Most people who have got killed seems to have been killed by their own authorities or invaders, not neighbours.

> I think we should talk about mass killings not mass shootings.

I'd rather talk about mass shootings—which is a problem that America currently has—instead of mass killings, which is not.

My point is that maybe we shouldn't see this in isolation.

Paying insurance is stupid - until your house burns down.

Guns for every law abiding citizen that wants one (and paying a few lives every year) is stupid until your uncles, brothers and sons are marched out in the woods and shot.

This happened less than 30 years ago way to close to me.

What I wish NRA would do though is fighting for stricter rules for gun storage, teaching risk assessment (do you really need your loaded handgun to be available for your kids?) etc.

It's said that mass shootings have more to due with media hype giving rise to copycats over the generations. If mass shootings were not 'national' news, but confined to the areas of people they actually affected then we would have much fewer of them.