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I think you are subconsciously filtering out most of the world. In fact, the most violent countries in the world have strict (nominal) gun control laws https:/

I think you are subconsciously filtering out most of the world. In fact, the most violent countries in the world have strict (nominal) gun control laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation#/media/File:Longgunlaws.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation... I'm in no way implying that open-carry discourages civil war or whatever, I'm just saying that there are HUGE swathes of the world where the gun laws on the books are not respected whatsoever.

rob74 3y ago
I guess by "most of the world" you are mostly referring to the African and South-East Asian countries that are red on the map you linked, but have long-running civil wars and other armed conflicts? Well, the explanation is the same as in the case of Mexico: corruption and a dysfunctional government. But yes, the tendency to make restrictions and punishments harsher hoping that they will be respected at least a little bit even though they are not enforced is pretty universal. Some examples: the potential death penalty for possessing larger quantities of drugs in Thailand. Or the ever-increasing penalties for traffic violations here in Germany, which correlate with less and less enforcement because of understaffed police...