2 cents from a european.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
As far as I know there are countries in Europe, like Norway, where indeed many people own a firearm (in the case of Norway I immagine mostly for hunting) but the rate of violent crimes is very low.
On the other hand, the US have their law, according to which they have the right to bear arms. We have different laws. In Italy, for example, I can own a firearm to go hunting, but I have to pay a tax on it. I can also have issued a permit of carrying a gun from the police. Does it make me a slave of my government? I wouldn't say so. After all we elect our political representatives, which form a government. How could I be slave of something I contributed to elect?
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Europe is currently fixing its population problems by immigrating a ton of Muslims in from the middle East. DOesn't take rocket science to figure out that some of them will be whacked and opt to bring Europe to its knees in the future. An armed populace would not let this happen.
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I come from a country that was invaded by almost everybody, greeks, romans, saracens, normans, longobards, goths, franks, vandals, huns...Myself, I'm actually descending from frankish family that settled first in Catalonia in the IX century then south of Italy and Sicily in the XI-XII century. Yet, now, in the XXI century, we are a state, we have laws to regulate immigration and we have police forces to uphold those laws. How they are effective can be debated. But personally, an armed populace that start shooting indiscriminately people because they have a different color of skin, because they come from another country in search for a better life, I think that is barbaric. But maybe I'm just a naive leftist.