From my outsiders point of view, America's profound attatchment (I mean we have gun liscences in the UK for farmers and game etc. but most people wouldn't want one) to guns appears bizarre. It surely must source back to some collective primordial insecurity, when the only way the origonal white invaders of America could crush the indigenous peoples, was with firearms.

...just as well people can't shoot on the internet. Or I'd already be smoking in someones shed about ten seconds ago... ;-)