But the majority of American gun nuts don't hunt. Also a lot but not most also realize that the gun isn't the problem. The problems is gangs, and the revolving justice system with criminals out on parole or even worse released 45 minutes after arrest for having an gun on them and then find out they have been arrested 14 times and get arrested again for committing another crime. Other countries don't have the shooting like we do but they have other crimes that are just as bad or worse. Crimes using other weapons or crimes against the person are higher in those countries than what we see here.
We have reasonable social security , including housing and a reasonable education system so we don't have much of a gang problem .
They are here but very much under control , protection & shake downs are a thing of the past as the police never seem to notice them selling drugs.
There is almost no crime against the general public, nearly all of it is gang against gang .
And yes the gaol; system does not work down here either.
Because it was devised by the rich & privelegded where being in the slammer is a big problem
For a lot of the prisioners, conditions inside are better for them than conditions outside.
We also don't continue the sentence once they are out so a lot can re-enter the general society.
And of course we don't gaol people who fart in the wrong place like you seem to do in the USA so that keeps a lot of people who don't need to be in gaol out of gaol where they learn to become professional criminals.
Every state down here spends more on education than the do on prisions because we realised it was cheaper the educate than to punish
