I want my government to fear the people it serves. Between that, the personal defense angle, and the freedom side of it, we have more than enough reason to want guns to be legal here. And don't go on about "What are you going to to against an M1 Abrams tank?!?!!?!" Because you don't occupy a place by bombing it into a parking lot, you do it with boots on the ground, and I want those boots to be met with violent resistance if they are in our neighborhoods in support of a fascist US government or dictator. You can say it can't ever happen but there are countless examples throughout history where countries have been taken over.
By the way, I do find it amusing how you have a group of people calling Trump a dictator or the next Hitler but in the same breath they want to give up their rights to defend themselves from such things.
That's fine, we just don't look at it the same way in this country. I find it extremely difficult to explain this to Americans, so I'll leave it at that.
That's fine, we just don't look at it the same way in this country.
Well then I'm glad you're happy where you are at and I'm happy where I am at.
Statistics on states with restrictive gun laws are not the same as countries with those laws. You can't expect guns to stay out of Chicago when they are present everywhere else. The UK is in a far better position to enforce gun control than any US state, and probably more so than most other European countries. Australia is another country with gun law restrictions, and whilst I have no idea what the actual statistics are over there, I'd be willing to bet gun ownership is a lot lower than states in the US with gun control due to their isolated nature.