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Outside the US most people don't carry guns, even pirates.

• andai 4y ago
  When I Google "somali pirates", almost every photo has automatic weapons in it. What do pirates typically use?
  • nradov 4y ago
    In that region, mostly AK-47s and RPG-7s, plus whatever other random weapons they managed to scrounge. Same as every irregular paramilitary force throughout the Middle East and Africa.
• fooker 4y ago
  In large-ish cities, sure. People have guns in rural areas everywhere. There are some exceptions like China where guns are very uncommon but if you are traveling through Eastern Europe, or Africa, or rural parts of south Asia you are going to encounter a lot of people who have guns. There isn’t a gun culture like in the US in these places though, so you’ll have to know what to look for.
  • reillyse 4y ago
    People have some guns in rural places worldwide but you almost never encounter them. Gun ownership rates drop off fast after the US (I think the 10th highest country is 1/4 of the US rate) and the rates keep dropping from there. Also while rural farmers may own a shotgun or a rifle they mostly leave that locked up at home, the chances of you meeting someone with a gun is pretty tiny. Only exceptions I can think of are perhaps some Central American countries.
    • teknopaul 4y ago
      Agreed. Just got back from Marrakech there is very little crime there and certainly no baddies who would consider shooting your dog to rob you. "gun culture" and people waving hand guns around for crime or "self defence" is, thankfully, limited to a small number of failed states, and the United States.
  • watwut 4y ago
    100% not true here and not in Eastern Europe. People in villages don't have guns everywhere. Also, the one subgroup of villages who do have guns are actual mafia members. But their power is mainly in organization and in having bought cops. You having own gun will in no way help you if you are targetted. The rest of people have them generally only if they need them for job, very rarely otherwise. Villagers don't have guns for fun either all that much, it is also costly. The self defense laws are also such that gun is likely yo get you in serious trouble.
    • lazerpants 4y ago
      The implied gun ownership rate given by the firearm suicide rate in Hungary, for example, is rather high. It is also surprisingly high in Austria. Neither are like the US of course, but unless the primary reason people own firearms in those countries is for suicide, more people own guns than you may imagine. Granted, I did research on proxy gun rate estimators many years ago, using even older data, so it is possible that things have changed but I don't see why that would be the case.
      • reillyse 4y ago
        There are lots of things that could skew this data. What suicide rate seems to be measuring is access to guns. Lots of people in the police or other security forces have access to guns. Often people who have done military service have an issued gun at home (eg Switzerland I think). Military service generally overlaps with a time in life when males are more vulnerable to suicide.
        • teknopaul 4y ago
          For sure, owning a gun is a long way from carrying a gun around while committing crimes. In most of the world, if you want to do a robbery, carrying a gun is not a sane option. You are more likely to end up in jail or dead or both.
• Erik816 4y ago
  Inside the US most people don't carry guns.