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We scratch our heads about America's gun laws.

The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another - roughly one a month this year alone.

He instituted a severe crackdown on gun ownership, and forced would-be gun owners to submit to a rigorous application process, and to document why they would need a gun.

Conditions for gun ownership in Australia are now very strict, and the registration and approval process can take a year or more.

The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.

The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.

Since citizens' militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.

As a result, gun ownership has become perversely linked to freedom in the vast gun-owning American sub-culture.

The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world's vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.

Today it is Zimbabwe's press that is under the gun.

Convincing great powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals might seem as politically fanciful as pushing gun-control legislation through the US Congress, but on that issue, too, Obama has made clear that he is willing to try.

But most Serbs were beginning to believe that the ballot and not the gun was becoming the dominant tool of politics.

According to a 2007 survey, the United States is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of gun ownership, with 90 guns for every 100 citizens.

With these casualty figures, one would think that gun-control laws would be a much higher national priority in America than the far more loudly hyped fight against terrorism.

After all, ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left roughly 3,000 people dead, gun violence has killed almost 140,000 and injured more than two million.

Why are gun-control laws so hard to pass?

One big reason is the gun lobby, which is one of the most heavily funded in America.

Indeed, many argue that the risk of gun-related deaths and injuries is the price that Americans must pay for the right to bear arms, which they regard as a powerful defense against tyranny.

But few such restrictions have been legislated - or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

But little US coverage following a gun massacre assesses the impact of America's health-care system, which is unaffordable to many, especially for those with mental-health problems.

An iconic campaign poster captured the public mood: a picture of a gun-slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon.

David Cameron was polished but vague, and the jowly Brown came across as gun loaded with statistics.