It's surprisingly hard. It seperates you from the rest of the western world greatly.

For me, bit like the world of Islam such as Iran, Syria, Egypt - all the nice holiday places. Partly I look at them as backwards, and clearly not developing in the right direction. A bit like that with guns and the US for me. That's why I prefer Canada

Ten arguments (based on reason and evidence?) offered against gun control since yesterday's mass slaughter (via Richard Dawkins)

1) Prohibition of alcohol didn't work -- avoiding the fact, based on strong evidence, that restricting guns DOES work in country after country.
2) Cars (used for transportation) are dangerous -- therefore there should be unlimited access to machines, the only purpose of which is killing. (This is like saying, since car transport is dangerous, we should allow cigarettes in closed spaces. Huh?)
3) The Oklahoma City bombers didn't use guns. In other words, "Because handfuls of people sometimes commit terrorist acts, acts that take long-term planning, we want to make sure it's legal to shower America with guns so that spontanous acts of violence are common and the killing can be done with great efficiency on the spur of the moment."
4) "a well-regulated militia" means making sure any random person can get semi-automatic weapons.
5) A nut in China injured school children with a knife, therefore in America we want to make sure a similar person can kill -- not injure -- kill -- and kill easily and, if they choose, kill in large numbers, on the spur of the moment, whenever someone flies into a jealous rage or psychotic state.
6) It's about insanity not guns -- this argument is apparently based on the hypothesis that Americans are a lot more insane than the British, Australians, French and the people of many other developed countries where guns are restricted and far fewer people die from guns.
7) Teachers and (some have actually said this!) children should have guns in school -- despite the fact that the Connecticut killer's mother apparently owned the semi-automatics that the killer used to kill...his own mother and so many children -- and -- the mother worked at the school where the killing occured.
8) Dictators from an earlier time used gun control, therefore the success of gun control in modern democracies should be ignored.
9) Mike Huckabee says it's because we don't have prayer in school which is as intellectually strong as arguments 1 through 8.
10) Finally the classic: it is disrespectful to the children who died to discuss methods of preventing similar killings. (Huh?).
Where are the arguments based on logic and reason that address the success of gun laws in major democracies like Germany, France, Spain and Australia? Or is religious gun worship enough until the next time a mass murder occurs. Meanwhile, every week, individuals are killed in some jealous rage in far greater numbers than in other industrialized societies -- with the use of machines designed for the efficient and spontaneous killing of humans. If there are non-religious arguments, evidence-based arguments, against gun control, please offer the evidence, or we will we be offered only more straw men and emotional rants?

Europes stats on murders by guns are in a different league than your own. We have them in hundreds, you have them in thousands.

About DUI, Norway haven't outlawed booze, but we have perhaps the most strict alcohol policy in the world, and even if I personally find it silly, I can't argue with the stats - IT WORKS.