In many american large cities you will hear gunfire at night. Usualy the denizins pulling the trigger are in a well known part of the city and common sense is most of what's needed to never meet said desnizins. Many of those cities don't care if you have a large gun collection if you keep it to yourself, the range, hunting, and pay your proper federal taxes and federal registration for fully automatic firearms and silencers. They start caring when you discharge one of your collection inside of their jurisdiction without a really good reason.
Here in oakland ca where I live near the center of the city off of Lake Merrit park. You hear gunfire all year round. Primarily the denizins altercating over criminal activities and their presumed perogitives to territory, bad deals or they insulted each others woo woos. In my middel class area of oakland the only reason they stray in here is for BnE, larceny, smash n grab and pan handeling.
California law says nothing about my firearms collection as long as I store it safely and shoot at ranges, hunting, or after dark inside of my home at an intruder. Fortunately the denizins prefer shooting at each other a few miles away at night having no interest in me or my family.
Our countries are different and we should leave it at that. If we all lived in the middel of africa in lion country and had to walk everywhere, we would go armed or be on the menu with all the other prey in the area. You would accept the need to be armed the same as a carpenter needs his tools to survive. In america we have a vastly larger population over a larger land mass with more opportunities becasue of that for the proverbial stuff to hit the fan. And in most regions our laws and history support us as individuals protecting our lives with firearms or deadly force.
We are different cultures with different legal traditions making these kinds of arguments emberrasing for both parties. I doubt Parliment is going to pass legislation disarming america becasue our guns are 3001 miles too close to Breat Britian. Just as our 2nd Amendmant was recently upheld in the supreme court via the Heller decision.
