>>>After several devastating wars on the European continent that costed millions of lives, gun control was one of the things that was put into place to make sure that people could not just kill eachother by pulling your finger on the trigger. Perhaps because the most of the US did not experience the horrors of genocide and destruction to the level that was practised here, they are still in the believe you can protect yourself with a gun. Who knows, But I find it unbelievable.
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>>You might not realize it :), but I think you are incorrect. 99.999% of people do not resolve problems by looking for a gun. But when people hate they find a way to kill ( pressure cookers, airplanes, cars, etc.). I repeat what you have heard many times: ... people kill people.
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>Atom bombs do not kill people, people do kill people. Can you explain why it is a good idea to let individuals own atom bombs, tanks. Etc. it takes only a few wacko's to kill large number of people. Do you really think that the availability of guns have nothing to do with small children killing their siblings or parent by accident. Do you really think that the 21 y old racist would be able to kill 9 people if he had no (automatic) gun available? How about that wacko that shot half of the cinema down? And how many students have caused slaughter at university campus. Ask Bill kuhn here on the UT what the chance would be if his son did not have access to a gun. For ordinary individuals not living in the wild, guns only increase unsafety.
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>It really is that simple as "cars do not kill people, people do kill people". But if you take away cars, nobody is going to be killed in a car accident. But the cars has a very valuable social and economic purpose that outweighs that risk. A gun has no other purpose than a violent one.
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>>As to the genocide and the millions killed in Europe, that was not done by civilians with guns. That was done by police and armed forces. Europe still has police and armed forces. So what has changed?
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>What has changed is the awareness that guns are associated with death and injury and wherever guns show up, you'd better get out rather than trying to be clint eastwood.

Ah.. so the Nazi killed millions of people because there was “no awareness that guns are associated with death and injury”..
Do you ever think (on non-technical threads) before you write or the mind is in the auto-pilot? :)