Holy smoke, two guns: Americans wielding guns that "Santa brought for Christmas"

Someone playing with the children in the war games with toy guns, but for the characters of our material this is not. Many Americans love guns, and the best gift for them for Christmas — the new "trunk". Photos with real arms on the background of Christmas trees filled the social network. And among the gifted, not only in adults but also many adolescents and children.

Source: The Sun

According 2017 approximately 40% of Americans reported that they own a gun or live in a family where there is a weapon: U.S. residents are approximately 270 million weapons. The number of murders involving firearms in the United States is the highest in the developed world.

According to recent data from the Federal Agency of the Ministry of health of the USA, over the past year in the United States more than 40,000 people died as a result of gunshot wounds. This is the largest number since 1979. Despite these frightening statistics, the number of American fans of weapons is not decreasing.

Americans demonstrate the weapons donated to them for Christmas 2018 in Instagram and Twitter.

The game is on the verge of life and death: one wrong move and holiday photos can turn into the latter.

Question about tightening gun legislation is one of the main sticking points between Republicans and Democrats. But in 2018, the first polls showed that the majority of the US population now believes that gun laws should be stricter.