Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "HeyBub"
wrote:

It's not productive to compare the UK and the US. In the US, we have
a culture that praises the gun. There are almost as many guns in the
US (240 million by some estimates) as there are people.

That's an underestimate, BTW. Per capita firearm ownership in the US
is 0.9,
which means 270M+ firearms.

Yeah. But who's counting?