Americans are confident that they are indestructible. At the same time, 30,000 American deaths all originating from one cause has no effect on the opinion of the mass of the population. Is this because they are “indestructible”? Or, is it plausible that the toys the American people claim as necessary are truly a weapon and nothing else. Dean Burnett states in his article, “Gun Demanding: the Psychology of Why People want Firearms” that there are six reasons behind the desire of gun ownership by Americans including, protection, recreation, paranoia, anger, insecurity, and social and cultural pressures. While it is easy to see protection as an important security issue for individuals, reasons such as paranoia and social pressures are psychological.
