Lookin' Down the Barrel

Anyone heard of a British dude running down to the shops and buying a gun? No, and you know why? Because guns are dangerous in the wrong hands, and we therefore make it hard for them to be aquired.
Isn't that the smart thing to do?
With all our laws governing guns and killing and murder, is it not fitting that the weapons used for such acts are removed from public eyes?
Then why, for any one minute, do the Americans just let you walk into a corner shop, order a pack of smokes, some beer, and a Browning 9X19? You then walk away, get pissed on the beer and shoot someone, and the government is all over you, chucking your ass in jail.
Now to be really fair to my brothers across the pond, they are kind of hypocritical in this sense. They allow the weapons to be sold to Joe Public down the street, not giving two fucking shits about what he does with them, as long as he signs a piece of paper stating that he doesn't intend any malicious behaviour with them. Then he goes and shoots his wife for cheating on him, and the country is up in arms! This is terrible! How could he do such a thing? Well, if they had only just looked at a flaw in their own pompous policing system, they'd realise, 'hey, you know if we don't let them buy those guns, then less people will die!'
If you look at the state of the British policing system, you'll get an idea of what it is like over here. None of the regular PCs are armed. They just carry a baton to whack the shit out of anyone who looks at them funny.
And the reason for this? Because when we get angry at the world, we can't just walk down to kalashnikovs "R" us, can we? No, and as a result, less people get shot. The cops just arrest your ass for 'breach of the peace', a phrase which nobody really knows the meaning of anyway.
And so, our country is a lot more orderly and peaceful than others, simply by making weapons less accessible. And why don't other countries just follow this, and before we know it, there will be less hatred among us, and there won't be a morbid fear of being carjacked whenever you go down to the shops for your beer.
You'd have at least thought a couple of countries would have noticed our laws, and how, by being that little bit more strict, have cracked down on crime that is just everyday business for other countries.
Can't they just try it out at least?
So, until Uncle Sam says 'no' to guns, i'll be sitting, wondering why the hell he says 'yes' in the first place.