Meh I'm not worried about these gun laws here, I'm creative and resourceful enough to build my own primitive weapons whenever it's necessary to do so.
Anyway I believe guns shouldn't be banned, but instead a professional behavioral and firearms training program, psychological assessment and training to recognize legitimate hostile targets and use appropriate responses, and alternative defensive training (such as kick boxing, karate, etc) should be prerequisites for gun ownership. It's not the gun that's the real problem, it's the psychology of the person who's wields or owns it. If they're trained sufficiently to understand their weapon, how to disarm and secure it during non-use, have the right attitude using it, know alternative means to subdue a unarmed or knife armed opponent with non-lethal force, and ways to immobilize a target without lethal consequences with their firearm; then incidents of at least accidental or excessive force use fatalities by firearms should be reduced. Consider it like a basic form of police training. Sounds like a lot to obtain a weapon, but if you want to defend yourself, it would be worth learning all those things as well as owing a gun I'd think. Also the industry should strongly market and encourage the purchasing and usage of rubber bullets for home defense, as rubber bullets are very effective for subduing a person in debilitating pain, with a reduced chance of it turning into a fatality.
How would physically handicapped people and old people be able to learn kick boxing or karate? And, like Depressed Mode, pointed out, it's nothing magic with karate. Most people can never become Bruce Lee, and ever he would have been helpless against a person with a firearm.
To obtain a one hand gun legally in Sweden, you have to go to a shooting club - if they let you in at all; a net buddy of mine with a perfectly clean record has waited for
two years to be "accepted" in his local shooting club, and that's in the 4th largest city in Sweden - be a member for at least one year, often two years, and shoot the "gold series" in target shooting. During this time you're constantly being fed with antigun propaganda.
Legal gun owners in Sweden, who actually understand that the gun law is totally sick, don't even dare to reveal their real identities on an internet gun discussion board, because that might be enough to make them lose their licenses.
So all people that are heard of in the Swedish gun "debate" are the ones sucking Big Brother's cock. If they ever let a pro-gunner say anything, they do the same as our passive-aggressive Finnish ostrich here does to us: they ridicule and insult them. The same goes for people who are against immigration or anything else that Big Brother has decided is PC, for that matter.