CRAB, you need to get a life. I do not care that you do not desire to own a weapon.
However, why do you give a rat's arse that most Americans, yes most, do own firearms?
America is not your country. You may notice that few, if any, Americans criticize the U.K. or the British in this forum. Why do you feel the need to criticize America/Americans?
SAS and Desert Dude, well said. At our last home in the S. Cascades of N. California, we also rarely locked our doors, and left my keys in my pickup truck, with a 9mm in the glovebox. Nobody ever bothered us, and we also watched out for our neighbors, as they watched out for us.
Now in Italy, people are getting ripped off like stealing is the national sport. My villa was burglarized three months ago, and my new Opel Vectra stolen from our yard six weeks ago.
Oh, I must mention, it is nearly impossible to own a firearm here.
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!"