I see what happened here, you saw "sheep" and automaticallly thought NZ.
I think you guys on the outside looking in see very little, if any, of the real picture regarding USA/gun ownership. The vast,vast majority of guns (handguns included) in the country are used for sport only and kept under lock and key by responsible owners.
I've lived in many places around this country and never felt the need to keep a gun loaded and handy for home defence; yes I'm sure there are areas where the threat of the hoogetty-boogetty man is real, but far more are just plain paranoia or the idea that since you have a gun, might as well keep it handy.
Your "plump little spotty white assess" line almost smacks of racism, plenty of non-white butts worry about security, and plenty of white ones fall under the Hoogetty-Boogetty heading.
I guess the news in OZ will never have something like this "Hundreds of millions of Americans slept quietly and unarmed without incedent last night"