Guns make it so and the prisons full, FREEDOM! It's pretty obvious to the rest of us and the statistics speak loudly, every other functioning liberal democracy has gotten rid of, or severely restricted firearms and the results speak for themselves. It is yet another symptom of governmental and social dysfunction, failure to adapt. it is mostly a result of a lack of actual democracy and the will of the people cannot be properly expressed because of structural problems and historic cheating and racism. They have minority rule in the house because of Gerrymandering an electoral college for the president who can be elected after getting millions of votes less than the real winner of the popular vote and the senate represents geography, not people. A state with a population of 300K has the same two senators as one with nearly 40 million people.
Besides all that, over 40% of the population are racist assholes who support fascism and the overthrow of their own constitution and democracy!