| @Duke_of_prunes, @ulashima: I guess there are three main things contributing to high gun ownership rates: violence, rurality (if that's a word!) and _wealth_. So having large wild areas (hence a lot of farmers, rangers, etc.) is why countries like Finland and Canada are on there, despite being relatively peaceful; conversely, somewhere like Somalia is lawless and violent, but most people are too poor to have guns. And much of the USA is pretty high on all three counts...
I am not a sociologist, though! |