Foreigners think Americans are ‘bananas’ when you explain our gun culture to them: Korea-based American scholar

By Matthew Chapman On Thursday, Robert Kelly, an American scholar living in Korea, broke down the extent to which other countries find America’s gun culture “bananas” — and see the entire way the United States approaches guns to be backwards and dangerous. “I have lived outside the US for almost 18 years – in East Asia and Western Europe – and I have discussed guns in America with non-Americans countless times given that my area is political science,” wrote Kelly. “Non-Americans are genuinely curious why we allow private fire arm ownership, especially when it so obviously correlates with gun v…

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