Republicans in general support pedophilia, and especially MAGA types support it even more so. Every Republican political actor, current and former, is someone who knowingly tied their fortunes and identity to the pillars of US pedophilia; the major churches, the forced birth movement, etc. From the Bulwark guys to Laura Loomer, none of them are people who are actually opposed to pedophilia in a principled manner. And the Trumpist cohort is even more fervently pro-pedophilia. It's an open part of their politics.

What's damaging Trump is the secrecy and the obvious extent to which he's protecting other elites. For MAGAts, it makes Trump look like he's protecting the Jews and Democratic Satanists that he was supposed to take down. The problem isn't the pedophilia, it's that they're seeing Trump as an insider to the groups they hate as the subject of their conspiracies.

Other countries than the US have guns. Many of them do not have the US' spasms of violence. There are also countries with severe gun control that have routine spasms of violence like the US.

The problem is that people in the US look to countries that have relatively limited mass violence and imagine that those countries gun policies are the answer. But the reason the US has a constant drumbeat of terrorism and mass violence is because of far more complicated reasons related to the authoritarianism and religious extremism present throughout the US. In other words, the US has regular spasms of violence of the kind we associate with the most ravaged parts of the middle east or eastern europe because the US has political and material conditions that resemble those places. Warlords, terrorist cells, strong ties between paramilitary terrorist groups and major formal political powers, widespread legalized or semi-legal corruption, widespread poor standard of living, etc.