You said this down-thread too, and it was just as incorrect the first time. 1) People do not just carry guns around with them in the US. That's factually untru

You said this down-thread too, and it was just as incorrect the first time. 1) People do not just carry guns around with them in the US. That's factually untrue, and illegal in most places. Even where open-carry or CCW is legal, these are flatly not the people committing gun violence. There is no evidence of that at all. In fact, these tend to be the least likely people to actually use a gun over some argument or whatever. It's not 1843, it's not the wild west - there are no poker room gun fights or high-noon gun duels. 2) The guns commonly used in gun violence were obtained illegally. Turns out... criminals do not care about background checks, waiting periods, approved gun rosters, and more. 3) When an "otherwise lawful" citizen does use a gun to commit violence, it's usually murder, usually of someone they know (wife cheating, etc). Without a gun, a knife would be used, or a car, or poison, or whatever. Even your "civilized" country examples have this exact same problem - crimes of passion as they are often called. 4) One of the leading stats for gun related deaths are suicides. Without guns, you still have suicides (see Asian countries with zero civilian-owned guns, yet people jump out of buildings). There simply is not a problem with legal gun owners running around committing acts of violence. It's simply not true.