there's definitely a culture of gun enthusiasts out there. But those aren't the people causing most of the crime and commiting all the murders.
Of course those people aren't. But the lack of control and restrictions are what allow the heavy flow of illegal guns to get into the hands of the people that are committing those murders.
People will often bring up NY or Chicago as examples of places with tough gun laws that still manage to have enormous amounts of gun violence. But those guns start out legal. They're bought in areas with little control and driven into those cities to be sold on the black market. Neither of those places has border guards and its not hard to get guns purchased in other places with very lax control into the cities. Tougher regulations would help with that. It won't make it non existent of course, but it will help.
