Europe and the US are two very different places with very different populations and very different problems. Acting like gun ownership or the lackthereof is the entire difference between one country’s problems and another’s is incredibly myopic.

I commute between US and West Europe on a fairly frequent basis. I see the difference. Nobody of the tens of Europeans I know have a gun or would ever like to have for “self-defense” purposes. And yet our number of gun-related crimes or accidents is exponential compared to Europe. Because also, similarly, the crime…