Thanks for the elaborate reply, serenitys. So USA citizens are mistrusting the government (arguably for good reasons), whereas Europeans have some more respect for theirs.
What is the history of European countries invading and killing each other?
What does this photo mean to you?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen
Times are changing, fortunately. Of course, the situation in the Ukraine is tense.What does this photo mean to you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen
Stalin's Gun Control Methods Worked Remember Your History Or Be Doomed To Repeat It !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1aYxCzepI
That looks a little bit far fetched. Not all examples are good examples.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1aYxCzepI
Yes. US street culture is simply very aggressive. Lots of US guys seem to think being tough and uncompromising is something admirable. When a tough and uncompromising character meets another tough and uncompromising character aggression is often a result. If there are weapons around they will be used and a gun is a very effective weapon. Also if a gun is used in a robbery or a house breaking then logically someone is more likely to be shot and because bullets do a lot of damage they will be more likely to die - as opposed to someone who has been beaten with fists.
Fundamentally your violence problems are cultural. There are countries in Europe with high levels of gun ownership but they do not have the violence on their streets or gun deaths that you have in the US. Guns are not really the problem. BUT, while you still have an aggressive cultural character, having guns freely available does make your society far far more dangerous for everyone.
You need to become less aggressive and take the guns off the criminals. There is your solution. So do you do that by opening another gun shop? Won't these guns actually end up in the hands of the criminals? Every single gun on the streets was originally made and sold legally wasn't it??
I like your way of looking at it, seems plausible. But if you could choose if in a safe country, would you rather life with or without easy access to guns?Fundamentally your violence problems are cultural. There are countries in Europe with high levels of gun ownership but they do not have the violence on their streets or gun deaths that you have in the US. Guns are not really the problem. BUT, while you still have an aggressive cultural character, having guns freely available does make your society far far more dangerous for everyone.
You need to become less aggressive and take the guns off the criminals. There is your solution. So do you do that by opening another gun shop? Won't these guns actually end up in the hands of the criminals? Every single gun on the streets was originally made and sold legally wasn't it??
So USA citizens are mistrusting the government (arguably for good reasons), whereas Europeans have some more respect for theirs.
The Founding Fathers mistrusted their own government, the one they were about to create for generations. Most or all of them came from Europe, not even born on American soil. They knew their own past history on the old continent perfectly and were trying to create a new paradigm. No more empire, no more monarchy, no more tyranny. They knew they would not be alive forever and created a document that tells people they have the right to free speech (to bad mouth their own government not the right of Libel and lie about their neighbor), and the right to bear arm if that government transformed itself into a tyranny, like it did so many times before in Europe.
Europeans have zero respect for their own government as they believe government is a job creator, a right giver and nothing else. Europeans believes they are born with zero rights, only then their trusty government has a list of rights it gives to its citizen, the exact opposite in the USA.
So far millions upon millions of serfs and sheep all over Europe have been slaughtered by their own government, the one you believe was trustful. You still believe it is OK for families with "noble blood" to be on top of you forever while you keep your own middle class to be slaved forever. Why do you think the brightest among you leave your countries by the hundred of thousands every year to come and work in California?
Must be that trusty government of yours.
By the way what is the safest country in Europe and how many people can it absorb every year in its paradise?