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Originally Posted by MH
Yep
You are into somthing here…
Firearms is more of a tool to use on enemy, not fellow citizens.
It is sort of taboo rooted in the legislation.
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I think it's more a taboo rooted in the instinctual European fear that the local prince will send a swarm of Cossacks to cut down any potentially troublesome peasant and raze his village. Not only have we Americans not had as much experience living under that kind of regime but we're mostly all the descendents of those who chose to brave the wilds of the New World than continue to live at some nobles leave. Adventurers, Troublemakers, Gutter Sweepings, Wretched Refuse, that's us to a tee. European potentates were glad to get rid of us.
That probably goes a long way to explaining our like of firearms as anything else.