Yes, I’m most of Europe we don’t want guns and we think many of the arguments for them are poor. I know it’s hard for you to understand but there are people in the world who see it differently from you.
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EU are not exposed to a range of arguments on the topic in my experience, nor does the average person on the street explore the it in detail and challenge their own thinking, which is largely absorbed from surrounding media and culture. So I agree, but I don’t find it a useful argument.
I think you both have some good points.
I remember the story of my grand mother who had neighbors living in places with robbers. After inquiries to the police station they had a permission to have a gun (this story is in South of France by the way).
With American people I experienced friends being emotional trying to avoid to fight just because they don't know if their potential opponent had a gun (from my point of view of course he did not, it was in Japan). So in this case it's one example of someone being polite.
At the same time I had to do boxing to get confidence and to have polite behavior from potential robbers (who happen to always target weaker people than me, typically girls in my experience).
So I think indeed that without all the propaganda against guns (which, at least in France, targets incidentally guns from the US, hence rights of others in a different country) we might have a different opinion about guns.
In my case I am not pro-gun per se, but I am pro-boxing, I think everyone should be able to beat robbers to death. Yet guns have the advantage to make it easier for the average person who prefer to drink beers.
The advantage of Japan and some other countries in Asia is we don't need boxing or guns to live peacefully.