Bang...bang! This is the noise that might disturb most of the Americans or does it really? Though, the US House of Representatives have passed a bill that would ‘reinforce’ background checks on gun buyers and perhaps become the first major gun control law since 1994, but is it going to work?

We are sorry if this is painful for anyone associated with the more recent and one of the worst shooting rampages in US history at Virginia Tech but we are not at all thankful that this incident impelled the US House of Representatives to pass an anti-gun Law. This incident should not occurred at the first place but it did. Who’s responsible for this? Are the delays in passing the bill responsible or the super strong pro-gun lobby to which even the legislators appear to go along with or is it the US constitution that gives the right to bear arms or is it, the worst of all, Wild West mentality that still shows its presence in the most parts of US?

Perhaps it is a combination of all of these factors that have made the most powerful nation on earth one of the most violent.

The ‘US gun control law’, possibly the most slipshod gun regulations in the Western world, has been nothing more than a debate if observed closely because the reasons for the violence are much broader than what it is generally associated with. Some also tends to associate the violence with violent movies, video games, music, and television shows, and side-splittingly to shock rocker Marilyn Manson with particular venom.

As we dive deeper into these issues, we explore many common explanations for why America is so much more violent than the rest of the industrialized world.

In a typical year, France has 255 firearm homicides. Canada has 165. The UK has 68. Japan, a nation of 127 million people, has only 39 gun murders a year. In the United States, that number reaches a staggering 11,127. Why this huge discrepancy? [Read]

Do Americans have too many guns lying around?

The answer that follows to this question is a very simple theory of economics - rise in demand is directly proportional to rise in production. An overabundance of guns cannot completely explain the situation, either, as it is the over demand of arms in US. To this follows the question - why is there more demand in US for guns?

The answer is simple and straight - Americans live in a culture of fear that sets them apart from rest of the world. This fear is imported by US with the export of its gun culture all over the world, and thankfully it doesn’t seem to have the same effects elsewhere and the ever-present threat of terrorism doesn’t help the US case that well either.

The US may have setting up to squeeze the arms law within the nation so the lethal weapons wouldn’t reach the wrong hands, but sadly, they just can’t help the prevailing Wild West mentality and ever increasing culture of fear that is dragging the Americans back to the dark ages.