I'm not clear on that. By world standards, we Americans are enormously wealthy. It's a lot easier for us, economically, to buy a rifle and ammunition and learn to use it well than it is for most of the rest of the world. There may be attitudinal things as well; the American ideal of the armed citizen defending home and hearth is not shared around the world.
“There may be attitudinal things as well; the American ideal of the armed citizen defending home and hearth is not shared around the world.”
Luke 22:36King James Version (KJV)
36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.