Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[Wyrd of Gawd]

I have read every post in this thread (and admittedly snarked at a few) and I think I at last see the core of the issue:  The trouble seems to be that USians view gun ownership as a right, while much of the rest of the developed world sees it as a privilege.  My own country is awash in firearms, even though it is made very difficult to obtain small arms, and your license to own them can be removed for a number of reasons.  As I understand it, VERY few firearms licenses are suspended or revoked, as EnZeds take gun ownership as a serious responsibility.

Without getting into the legal niceties of the Second Amendment, mightn't it be wise to at least consider that your FF got this one wrong?

Boru

Americans wanted guns so that they could suppress any slave uprisings on the plantations.  So they made it a law that they could have them.  In the meantime the English in England couldn't have guns because they might use them against the monarchy and install a democratic government.