[Dottore]

My personal view - and I'll take some flack for this - is that there is a fairly high correlation between the love for guns and a deep emotional immaturity. The owner of the gun believes he derives a certain strength from his weapon that he himself sadly lacks as a human being.

I lived in Switzerland for a good many years and always thought there was something deeply juvenile about the military service there, and the manner in which Swiss men dealt with this. There's a kind of adolescent locker room mentality it about it all. If you (Wickd89) ever want to amuse yourself ask your Swiss in-laws the next time just why it is they have a compulsory military service and have guns under their beds. Is it the Austrians they're afraid of, or the Italians?

And I echo what Flattbut says, there is something very sad about Americas infatuation with weapons. And very immature. As the replies to this post will surely demonstrate.