[Mustang]

Really, though, who would carry a nunchaku or a bat around in public unless they're trying to hurt someone? So it's not all that crazy after all.

About the claim that "only Americans understand this problem". I'm from the US (Virginia), and that isn't necesarrily true. There are plenty of people in America that want to ban guns, and saying that Europeans or others with the same point of view can't argue about it dosen't make sense. Europe limits gun ownership, and they have much lower crime rates. Whether or not this is just a coincidence, I don't know.

But guns would be much easier to effectively outlaw (if all of the free world cooperated) than, say, something that we haven't had much sucess outlawing such as drugs. You need to build them in real, expensive factories. You CAN make homemade guns, but no average criminal is going to bother doing that. So if most of the world made the manufacture of guns illegal for anything other than military use, it would be very hard for the average criminal to get one. Think about all the outlawed varities of weapons, like RPGs and .50 cals. Have you ever seen a criminal carry one of those around? No. Why? Because manufacturing them for civillian use is illegal. Sure, some criminals will still get their hands on guns. But not very many at all.

Basically, the only reason we have guns in America is because certain of us like to go out and kill animals. And if you still consider preserving that right enough to compensate for letting some guns to get into the hands of criminals, then there's nothing more I can say to convince you.