The issue isn't guns

that's only a big deal in the UK, lots of other European countries are quite ok with them. Look at Switzerland
http://pages.prodigy.net/vanhooser/the_ ... r_guns.htm
and this
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=72
The problem is unchecked immigration, mostly Roumanian gypsies who alledgedly enter Italy to beg and steal, and this has caused lots of bad feelings with the populace.
Recently two Roumanian Gypsy girls drowned in the sea at a popular holiday resort..the bodies were laid out underneath towels......and it didn't put the local holidaymakers off one bit they carried on sunbathing right by the bodies...........but this is a result of the crime wave that has come with the gypsies were local women have been raped and murdered, and the locals won't put up with that