> I live in Europe where literally nobody has guns except police and heavy criminals that only really use them to shoot their rivals.

Come on, this is totally untrue. I grew up in rural Ireland and it's very common for farmers to own guns. Hunters too.

Check here [•] - Finland, for example, is only a couple of percentage points behind the US in number of households that own a gun (42% vs 37%).

The difference is in the culture, not gun ownership. In Finland, Ireland, and every single developed country in the world (and most developing countries too) except for the US, privately owned guns are for hunting or for killing pests, not for threatening humans. That's the difference.

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