I can only speak for europe, but:
there are very strict gun policies.
Usually civilians with guns are the most stable people around.
They must prove that they have a stable family life and a stable job.
Usually people at the shooting range are people with a set government job either in politics or law.
There ARE tests and this test has to be taken every year.
You have a twisted view on people with guns.
Gunowners with a permit aren't the kind of people you see in footballgames or in pubs drinking all the time.
At the shootingrange I visit the people all wear suits and are all quite wealthy (guns are a hobby... and not a cheap one!)
They are also not the kind of people to go killing people.
That happens when, somehow, their child gets hold of a loaded gun (which is, obviously, the biggest no-no in Gun Permits)
In that case its the fault of the gunowner, not the government issuing out the gun permits!
Don't go off on a crusade against guns just because some moron got hold of his dad's gun!
I live in belgium, almost everybody in my neighbourhood is a legal gunowner.
Belgium is all but a warzone, so please, please read up on legal gunownership before you go off saying things like
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If ordinary people have guns too, what we will become? A war zone?
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(just so you know you don't need a permit to buy a crossbow, longbow or real sword in Belgium)