[xiphias2]

In the E.U. in any developed country if you are not in a bad neighbourhood, the chances of dying in homicide is so low, that people are considered crazy if they have a gun for ,,protecting themselves''.

I just went through a cancer blood test panel, which somewhat decreases my chances of dying, but I never thought of buying a gun.

[TheAdamAndChe]

The US isn't the EU. In rural US, police response times can be very long. Where I grew up, it would take police 30 minutes to respond to an emergency call. More rural areas can take longer. This combined with our distrust in federal government and individualistic society means many of us are willing and prepared to defend ourselves.

[bigbugbag]

The US seems to fare better. In rural EU there is simply no police to answer an emergency outside office hours. Your call is routed to a station distant of over a hundred kilometers, if they sent you their response team not only would it arrive too late but then they'd have no one to send to local emergencies. You're told to take pictures and to report to the closest station during opening hours the next day.

Heck we even had art stealers removing a several tons statue that was literally in front of that police station in the middle of the night, this town bank ATMs where blasted so many times that the banks just stopped replacing them.

It's been decades that everyone has stopped thinking that the governement cares or would send help if anything happened.

But despite the local context being worse than in the US for much longer, still there is no neighbourhood watch and the only people who have guns are hunters and the idea of needing guns to defend ourselves is quite uncommon.

[m0zg]

> if you are not in a bad neighbourhood

Same in the US. But if you _are_ in a bad neighborhood, it's probably safer to be in Kabul.