1 - because the often cited # where the number of guns per US citizen is < 1 per is so ridiculously wrong. It's over 2 per. 2 - because private citizens in the US own more guns than the entire rest of the planet combined. This includes governments. 3 - because who the fuck is going to be stupid enough to collect them? 4 - because fishing accidents e; >For example, gun control advocates today like to point out that the Third Reich in Germany did not disarm the entire German population. This is a rather bizarre position for leftists as they continually wail and scream about Nazis around every corner and behind every tree, but they will STILL defend their gun grabbing policies by arguing that the Nazis were not as bad as conservatives assume. Of course, what they rarely mention is that the Nazis DID disarm millions of people; most of them Jews and political opponents under 1938 German gun laws. - informs the website Alt-market. (((politinew)))