You're right on guns Maelakin but wrong on the mass transit thing. In large cities like LA, New York, and Chicago, yeah mass transit makes sense. But not in a small town, or here in the south where we look on vehicle ownership as more of a cultural thing.You must own a car, or more importantly, a truck or suv. You are not complete without it!
A good analogy of this would be me, living in Sanford NC(well I used to) wanting to go to the nearest mall. That is in Fayetteville about thirty miles away. Why would I wait for a bus to take me there and then have to wait for another for the return trip when I can hop into my truck and drive there? We have mass transit here in south east Virginia and it is a money pit. And now some brilliant politicians want to put in a light rail between Norfolk and Virginia Beach so we can lose even more money.