i live in a country with very strict controls, hell even our uniformed police force don't have guns. I like the fact that I walk down the street i know i have more chance of being hit by a car than a bullet. The only ones with guns are criminals and farmers. The criminals keep the gun violence between themselves, regular citizens rarely get caught up in it.
What i have been been wondering in the last couple of days was though, if a nut in the states wants to make a point, the first thing he does is go somewhere public (usually a school they are connected to) and shoot up a bunch of people, sometimes not even connected to him. We simply do not get events like that in Europe. The last one was Dunblaine in Scotland if i remember rightly.
I like knowing that for the most part, wacko's here will never, ever get a gun. Hell a farmer has to go through 12 months of checks before he can get one. All i can think about is that episode of the simpsons when Homer wants a gun, and hates that he has to have a cooling off period "But i'm angry now!!"