Actions speak louder than words, however, people have a tendency to open their big mouths and say things that make it really clear just what their actions are towards.
"The civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world."
-Charles Darwin
But don't judge him too harshly, he was just calling it, accurately so, as he saw it.
To make things a little bit more clear about what exactly the intention is:
"In war, they may kill some of us; we will destroy all of them."
-Thomas Jefferson.
And another one by the same fellow, right out of that sacred text The Declaration of Independence:
"He (King George of England)...has endeavoured (sic) to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
That's a two for one. you get to hate not only the british, but the indians as well, and,well, if you have any doubts what to do about it, see the previous qoute, and then keep reading as the same document later tells you that you get to have guns.
What does this have to do with anything? Not much I guess. Or maybe a lot. That depends on how you feel about basing your position on the way society should be conducted on the writings of people that were openly racist and called for genocide and mass murder against non-Europeans.
All I have to say is that while it can't be said that America has the most lax gun laws (many nations have none for or against), to my knowledge it's the only one where armaments are specifically granted in the founding laws of the country. Also, coincidentally or not, it has the highest level of crimes involving the use of guns in the world. You decide.
According to my outdated statistics (1990-1995)--
$ made on the sale of guns per year in the USA: 9,881,000,000
$ made on the sale of guns per day in the USA: 27,071,000
Number of people killed by guns per year in the USA: 37,776
Number of people killed by guns per day in the USA: 103
Number of people killed by guns per hour: 4
One person killed in the USA by a gun every 15 minutes.