Well argued and articulated.
The USA is not an island and theres a lot of bad guys with guns and that wont change even if the good guys give up their guns, because the problem is too vast. Europe may become more familiar with this predicament if they continue importing millions of rapefugees. When a bad guy is pointing or shooting a gun in a life threatening manner, its not manslaughter to defend oneself.
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Here in Germany, one obvious consequence of the refugee migration has been that wages are declining for low-end jobs. I believe you had said that would be a consequence of the refugee crisis. Do you see this spreading throughout Europe?
ANSWER: It is only common sense that if you increase the labor force in the low-end unskilled area, wages must decline. Every study that has ever been conducted on this issue has shown that is the logical consequence. This is indeed what caused the riots in Philadelphia against the Irish. Wages declines in the midst of a depression. Yes this trend will spread throughout the EU.
Also survivalism and rugged independence is still a core value amongst some Americans. Remember we needed our guns and militias to protect ourselves from illegal taxation and oppression by your King. Were descended from the concept of independence and individualism. And we have a history of war against natives, British, Mexicans, North vs. South, and probably another civil war coming soon of extremist leftist cities versus extremist conservative rural areas.
Western Europeans are tired of fighting after 2000 years of it. The Americans arent quite done yet.
Simple. Because Brits are descended from a monarchy system as contrasted against Americans who are descended from a republic and the struggle for independence from the monarchy. Many Americans view guns as a patriotic duty. Brits view themselves as placated servants to the queen (in the abstract culturally they do). In short, some Americans are still prepared to kick ass when the time comes.