>>>>>>>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?
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>>>"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?
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>>ok, let me rephrase that. What really is the reason to have the right to own a gun, while its about 40 times more likely that gun will wound or kill the someone living in the house and other innocent people rather than one who tries to break into the house or kill you? What is so important in the rights to own a gun to justify thousands of these gun related deaths each year?
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>The fact that criminals will still acquire them, legal or not. Having a close relative who was forced to shoot an intruder (who shot at her first when he gained access to her home after her repeatedly yelling she was calling the police and she had a gun). I have a few other friends who needed (and some used and some did not) a weapon at home for protection. But that is just one example. I have read thousands of police reports. Home security is just one reason, but it is a real reason.
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>The other reasons have been covered too numerous times to list them - I'll just refer to the 2nd and 14th amendments - regardless of how so many get it wrong here.

I have no friends or anyone i know of who has ever had need of a weapon or been exposed to use of a weapon. Home security is not an issue in the UK.
BTW I'm not advocating any sort of USA gun control. Its none of my business. But looking in from the outside you do have a real structural problem in your society.