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13. Compared to nearly every other country, the US is

in its toddler stage (and Canada is just learning to stand up by/for itself). There is no point to any comparison. European countries (whose names and boundaries have changed many times) fought each other on a continuing basis, up until (and including) the 20th century. Every citizen who could afford it had weapons to protect himself and his family and property. But Europeans finally grew up (or as some would say, they learned how to fight really, REALLY BIG battles -- WWI being a good example).

Whenever someone asks me why the US is such a gun culture, I tell them to read American history, and then to study up on the ubiquity of guns in movies and television. When I was a teenager, westerns were THE big thing on TV. You couldn't get away from them. They were inherently American, so much so that when Sergio Leone started making films, they were dubbed spaghetti westerns -- made in Italy but reflecting western gun culture.

I don't see a future without guns south of my border. It's tough enough trying to keep them controlled up here in the GWN.