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is in fact less than fifty years old?
Reagan passed a gun control law, and the NRA backed him up.

Also, to say that outsiders automatically view things through dark shades is interesting: You people are part of what amounts to a Domestic Altercation.
In those instances, the participants are seldom objective observers.

The outside view of the US began to tip when the US Republican party was suborned by religious nuts. It became clear that the US was not following the same road to increasing secularity and equality, but rather an odd road leading to increased corporate power AND increased superstition.
As such, everybody looks at you warily. You are powerful and erratic. Your policies look more to unproved principles than to what works, and you enforce them unilaterally.

You're lucky to have even the dwindling number of friends that you do, and I say this with regret. I would like to like you, but your choices are irrational.