Honest question for pro gun and anti gun folks

The places you mention just have more stabbings, truck attacks, and bombings. It’s citizens are sitting ducks who are powerless to stop it. The cops have guns.

Comparing tiny countries to the US doesn’t work. There are large parts of the US where cops are easily more than an hour away. Remember, the US has the gun rights it does, BECAUSE of the UK.

Singapore doesn't have a drug problem and Saudi Arabia doesn't have widespread alcohol abuse either. Now you can try to imitate them in the US, but we all know it ain't going to fly.

Mass shootings vs petty crimes. If citizens have guns, thieves most likely don't risk their lives to do petty crimes. That's why you see more crimes in Chicago (where citizens cannot have guns) over places where citizens can have guns. Police force cannot protect and stop these crimes at every place every time. So citizens need their own protection. So in that sense, power and protection to citizens are good. Now, some citizen are misusing this power resulting in mass shooting killing more innocent people. And most of these mass shooting, mostly occurs in gun free zones, where the shooter is aware that they won't be attacked easily. They are sure that people in those areas are defenseless and then they engage in attack. To instill fear on these attackers, we should allow at least some key people to carry guns even in gun free zones, like teachers in schools. Inspite of all the efforts, there would be criminals who will bomb, who will steal, who will rape etc. Just because there are rapes, we cannot cut dick of every man, you see.

USA has a mental health problem masked as a gun problem.

Simple: people rarely use guns for personal protection, anyway: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602143823/how-often-do-people-use-guns-in-self-defense Police duty to protect me is not really germane here. We can pass laws giving them that duty. It’s not that complicated.