Indeed it is best to have an unarmed populace. Much easier to control should the peasants be revolting.

Having said that, it would appear the some feel NA peasants are far more revolting than their own. As for the "gun culture" in the USA, I find it odd that some people simply do not understand that it is required to assist in enlisting young people as mercenaries so that future enslavement of peoples foreign and domestic may be easily accomplished. Should some of the above posters find this abhorrent, as indicated by their posts, allow me to remind same that the US military might is flexed, in part, by the English Crown. You really don't think the US fucked up Libya and others for *ONLY* US oil interests, do you? Surely it was also for BP, Shell, et al? No?

In any case, guns are good and SOME people are bad. Worse are those that think war is okay if it keeps them comfy and all they have to carp about is the "gun culture" of another country located thousands of miles away... the one that keeps them comfy by the barrel of a gun.

Anybody that wants the "gun culture" to go away should focus on the causes of it and not the symptoms.

Good gun laws are good... bad gun laws are very, very, very bad.

Adieu.