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I mean, comparatively this is true, but I'd like to point out that I'm an american and have only had the opportunity to use a gun once (for fun) which I did not take. Gun culture is a thing but it's not like everybody's walking around with guns 24/7.
No but in countries that have Gun Safety First laws the idea of being able to grab your gun to defend yourself is almost impossible. A common example is when guns and ammo have to be locked up separately. So in a home invasion the homeowner with a gun would have to first unlock and retrieve the gun. Then go to another safe, unlock that one too, get the ammo, then load it.
The first questions in an investigation would be, why didn't you call the police first then retrieve your firearm and ammo? Why didn't you flee? (Most places with strict gun laws do not have stand your ground laws.) Why was the only solution to go through the hassle of retrieving your firearm and using it?
See how that's different from American gun culture and laws? Could you imagine an American investigator asking those questions instead of asking, why were they there, did they have a weapon, did they threaten you with it.
In a Gun Safety First cultural gun laws are created to make a person shooting another person in any way less likely and most likely illegal. American gun culture and laws are more of checklist to perform before you're cleared to use it. It's don't shoot anyone vs. only shoot guilt people. See the difference?
Yes, there are clear differences. I'm just saying that using those differences to draw broad generalizations about the people who live in the US isn't usually that helpful because those differences are not relevant to the vast majority of people or situations.
Most countries have citizens that own guns.
Most citizens in the US don't have that either
You had reasonable comments above about the cilture and laws surrounding guns. Don't resort to "hurr durr every american is a cowboy".
Most handguns are for entertainment from my admittedly limited experience, but yeah of course handguns are used for self defense. I said most americans don't engage with gun culture, not that all guns we do own are used for hunting as you seem to have misinterpreted.
I was adding additional context and pushing back on the narrative that americans on average are gun nuts. We allow gun nuts to exist, but it is not the most common type of person.