You can't shoot guns if you don't have any.

The US culture IS strange. You even have this word, 'packing', short for being armed. Having a slang for that is very, very weird from an european point of view.

Hell, here, the worst you get for somebody being mugged is that they used a knife.

Guns are only for the mafias, which is definitly not day to day operation.

Don't get me wrong, i like going to the shooting range. But I woulf not like the content of the club safes to be on the street.

But I agree with one thing. I've been to the US 5 times, and the cops are scary. I have to go next year, and I don't feel confortable at all, even just passing the border.

It's not a good sign for your country.