@Baldimo,
Again with the explaining.
This is Able2Know.com, you'd be better suited to FuckedifIknow.com.
It's hardly rocket science. If you're spending an extra $48million on safeguarding your schools from the NRA your children are put at a disadvantage.
Other developed countries don't need to waste money on measures like that so the money can be spent on other things, like paying teacher's salaries.
It's not as if you're ahead of the field academically, if you were I wouldn't have to explain the flaming obvious to you.
When I was at college we hard a student exchange with American universities. The ones that came over here were in their third year, but put in with the freshers, and even then they had trouble.
I'd only just left school and two weeks into the course I had American students at least three years older than me who had already been at university for two years asking me how to write a ******* essay!