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> I'm interested that you don't see this as an issue mostly with police response time. I think this marks some confusion over exactly what constitutes 'rural'. The UK certainly has rural settings in terms of town size, small access roads, culture, etc. But having spent time in both, the UK just doesn't have anything like the US in terms of distance . Salmon, Idaho is several hours from... anything, really. You could…
I would say those situations fall under "practical purposes", and are not based in unreasonably fear, like a lot of other gun purchases. And there is a hell of a lot of difference between living in the (very) rural countryside, and living in a city. I fully admit that my perspective is influenced by living in small country with relatively short distances between towns and cities (hell, it's even impossible to get mor…
My objection, then, is that I have approximately zero faith in the people making these rules to recognize that. If a gun law is written, it will with near-perfect reliability be written by people who know little or nothing about guns, designed for comfortably suburban settings, and passed out of fear of urban violence.
So... I don't know that we disagree so much. I can support more gun regulation in theory, but almost always oppose it in practice because the things that get written are high-impact on practical use, yet totally ineffective at their goals.