Nope. I was born and bred in Africa. I’ve lived and worked in several African countries, but most of it was spent in South Africa where I was born. At one point, South Africa was the most violent country in the world outside an active war zone. Now Mexico is. South Africa is also the rape capital of the world.

This time round, I lived in South Africa for 5 1/2 years but moved to Germany about 7 weeks ago.

Nobody carries guns except the police. South African gun laws are very, very strict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_South_Africa#:

So I find it laughable that people in America need guns for self-defence. I find hunting to be despicable. Then, again, I find the way animals are killed for meat inhumane and despicable as well. There are more humane ways. This is 2021. The easiest way to get meat is simply to buy it, and while I realize that many Americans are poor, guns are expensive and so is ammo, and hunting has more to do with being part of boy’s club than actually being so desperate for food that one has to hunt.

Even in South Africa, where many people are really, really poor, living in tin shanties or out in the open, people don’t hunt for food.

As for shooting vermin. Wow. Only in America.

Yes, I have lived in the EU as well — Scotland, England, Spain, Germany, etc. And, yes, I’ve traveled to many countries.

Was I influenced to think carrying guns was wrong? No, I just grew up in an environment without guns — highly sophisticated, reasonably wealthy (private schooling, etc), very well educated (virtually everybody had tertiary education or higher), plus people who traveled internationally frequently. Nobody spoke about guns. Nobody thought of guns. Guns simply didn’t exist in the society that I grew up in. Even when those countries were violent.

I find people who carry guns creepy. My flesh begins to rise. I just wonder what it is about the person that they can’t defend themselves without guns.