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Germany has widespread gun ownership (estimate of 20 guns per 100 people). They are regulated but certainly not banned. In the UK, guns are pretty rare (about 5
by rsj_hn 5y ago
Germany has widespread gun ownership (estimate of 20 guns per 100 people). They are regulated but certainly not banned. In the UK, guns are pretty rare (about 5 guns per 100 people). The poster was talking about these low gun ownership rate countries, and was not trying to make a comprehensive list.
But it is true that the low gun ownership rate nations (<5 guns per 100) (ignoring ones in desperate povery where people can't afford guns) tend to, on balance, be much more authoritarian than the high gun ownership rate nations (>20 guns per 100 people). See the wikipedia article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...