>>>>This story seems to contradict your view. Apparently, there 1.8 million guns licensed in the UK and the numbers are rising, not falling:
>>>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/25/gun-ownership-firearms-certificates
>>>>http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/police-research/hosb0511/hosb0511-tabs?view=Binary
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>>>>Numbers seem to differ, this site states 3,400,000:
>>>>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/england-and-wales
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>>>How does it conflict the observation that no-one in the UK feels the need to carry a gun (unless you are a criminal) to be safe? The same applies to most European countries. About no-one feels the need to carry a gun.
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>>>Personally I don't know of any family with a gun in the house. I'm sure there are many registered guns in the Netherlands as well, but there are very strict regulations on usage, transport and storage. most are used because of proffession, hunting or sports.
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>>Where did you ever get the idiotic notion that everyone in America carries a gun to feel safe? Or wants to carry one to feel safe? Personally, I know a lot of families with guns and a lot without. I don't know anyone who feels the need to carry one around to feel safe.
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>If not used for self defence, what really is the argument for gun rights to carry a gun when nearly 3,000 children die every year of gun related deaths? Isn't this always the argument being used to carry a gun in the first place?

"Carry a gun?" I thought the discussion was about the right to own a gun, not carry one around with you wherever you go. There are transport regulations as well, and then the conceled permit, which is not the majority of owners. Do you really think every American, or even the majority, who have a gun permit are carrying it around everywhere?