LadyConstanze
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I think you got the wrong end of the stick here, not about who is more law abiding... Basically guns are rare in most European countries, you can't just go into any gun shop and buy them, so they are expensive, sure criminals can get them but not quite that easily, I don't know about the legal situation in the UK, but I know in Germany being caught with a firearm gets you roughly 5 years, unless you have a license for one, which are hard to come by and require extensive tests, psychological profiling, a damned good reason (like being the body guard of somebody who needs protection, having received threads and living in a remote location, etc.), now if you are looking at 5 years in prison, your average burglar doesn't want to add that to the punishment. You are basically having 2 different cultures here, one where almost everybody has a gun and since the baddies have them anyway the goodies need them too to sort of even the scales, and a culture where hardly anybody has a gun in the first place. The European way wouldn't work for the US, the US way wouldn't work for most of Europe... Nothing to do with more law abiding.
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