Daniela:
As stated above, worldwide statistics are not statistics just some list the holy un compiled asking each country to report themselves, no oversight.
The enivironment in europe is totally different than here in the us as well. We really cant just take one study and apply itto ourselves without lookingat the whole picture. There is almost no right to bear arms in practically all of europe. Even the police there are not armed with a gun.
The us does have the second ammendment for a reason. we refuse to close our borders and we have illegals streaming into the country along with smugglers. We have dangerous cartels just south of the country that would do anything to make a couple of bucks.
This is a very dangerous situation as i see it. The good guys being sitting ducks and the bad guys having every type of weapon at their disposal.
The goverment that wants to oversee us sent guns to mexico illegally and those guns made their way back into the us to haunt us. We dont even know where they are today. And you think goverment oversight will stop or prevent murders?