Iceland has one of the higher gun ownership rates in Europe.
15th in the world, actually.
The population is 300,000, so if you're talking number of guns per capita (there 90,000 estimated guns in the country) it's high. Heck, in England the gun per capita is 6.6 per 100 people. In a country of over 53.01 million people.
It's not a problem of the guns themselves, it's access to them. In both England and Iceland there are a shitload of restrictions on who can get a gun and who can't. Most of the people who own a gun in England are people in the countryside, farmers and the like. In Iceland the list of restrictions is also high.
Guns have sadly become a part of the American culture and you people can just pick up a gun whenever from assault weapons to pump-action shotguns. Iceland and England can't actually do that. As well as restrictions on who can get guns, the type of gun is also a thing.
Of course, your congress will vote against any attempt to dare change that. To dare put any restriction on. 'Cause gun nuts would rather see their own children gunned down before they lose their precious guns. Or at least it seems that way. I don't know whatever other way to explain what could be best described as complete, gun-crazed insanity.
