Green-eyed envy here. :-)
At the moment, practically every American who wants a firearm, owns one. If that ever changes such that even more want one, they can have one out of current supply. Heaven help whoever made them want one.
There is a social dynamic there that is grossly underexplored. In Great Britain at the moment a 300-lb drugged-up hooligan can break down any door he likes and take whatever he wants, secure in the knowledge that the justice system is more likely to make excuses for him than prosecute him. In the United States a 12-year-old girl can blow his sorry butt back out the door with Daddy's shotgun. She doesn't want to, and pray she never has to, but she can. That is civilization, in my opinion, and cowering behind a door hoping that he chooses someone else is barbarism. My European friends disagree. I fervently thank God I'm not one of them.
There is a social dynamic there that is grossly underexplored. In Great Britain at the moment a 300-lb drugged-up hooligan can break down any door he likes and take whatever he wants, secure in the knowledge that the justice system is more likely to make excuses for him than prosecute him. In the United States a 12-year-old girl can blow his sorry butt back out the door with Daddy's shotgun.
That is God's own truth. When the do-gooders confiscate all the privately-owned firearms in the name of "protecting" the innocent and the weak from the depredations of the criminal, the only people who end up getting better protection are the criminals themselves. It is no small wonder why the Colt .45 was called the Great Equalizer, because it put the smallest and the weakest on a par with the strongest. When gun-control freaks get their way, the poor and the weak don't benefit, they suffer, but then again, being poor and weak they have no real political voice, so the gun-control freaks can walk all over them in their desire to tell everyone else that they cannot have a gun.
