With current knowledge, if I had the choice to move myself and my family in 1900 into Europe, Asia or the USA, I would be foolish to move anywhere but the USA, as Europe and Asia, using the same guns that trouble you so badly in PRIVATE hands, placed the guns in the hands of their governments, who promptly slaughtered HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS using those guns. It is NOT a coincidence that the USA and Switzerland, both countries with a tradition of gun ownership going back centuries, had safe and secure homelands while the rest of the world degenerated in to barbarism and holocaust. No one argues that the USA is a perfect country, and America’s flaws are certainly plain to see, but it beats hands down the alternatives in Europe and Asia when viewed beyond the myopia of the short term. As Churchill once said “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” I think the same idea applies with respect to American gun ownership.
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