Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[The Grand Nudger]

How would you feel about a restriction that requires you to keep any firearms - unloaded - under lock and key, and to have your arrangements inspected at random by the local police?  Bear in mind that if your gun safe is found to be unlocked (or your weapons loaded, or your guns and ammo stored in the same place), you will lose your firearm permit.  Because that is exactly the arrangement here, and no one - as far as I know - has found it to be objectionable.

That -restriction- already exits in our gun laws, I'm fine with it.

@Rob, You won't even notice that people have them.  Your fear is based upon misinformation and a "finessed" summary of stats.  In most places you're likely to visit...the only people who are walking around with guns are the cops.  In the places you -could- visit where alot of people -do- walk around with guns, the rates of gun deaths are ludicrously low and -still- contained to the usual demographics.   Seeing a redneck with a gun is a bit like seeing a golfer with clubs, in reality.

It aint the wild west anymore, and the wild west itself, the age of the cowboy, lasted less than 20 years itself near 200 years ago now.   You'll find very little difference between the safest parts of the UK and the safest parts of the US, with respect to gun violence, regardless of how many guns the citizens have in their cabinets.  If you come to the US to walk around the wastelands of detroit at midnight OTOH...........

There are -massive- swaths of the US wth comparable rates of gun related violence and death to the UK (and those areas, I;ve discussed before, also happen to be some of the highest ownership areas).  That our national stats are so poor, relative to your own, is, in -some- sense, geography.  The US is very large.  Imagine if the UK incorporated as many of the largest cities on an entire continent as the US does.  How would your murder stats look?  That's -exactly- why ours look the way they do.  Our borders are large enough to encompass a great many places that, despite their tiny size relative to the overall nation..are grossly over-represented in gun deaths, skewing our stats into the toilet.  In point of fact, unless you plan on crossing the pond to commit suicide or run a low level meth operation....you, personally, are no more likely to be shot in the US than you are in the UK.  

Long story short, stop worrying, come shoot some elk /w me when you visit, I'll lend you a cannon...and I promise not to mistake you for a woodland creature.