@ragingloli, @Lightlyseared Human nature invalidates pacifism. As long as there are other people (and hostile animals) in the world, no one has any right to feel safe. Institutions who disarm you are certainly not going to change human nature either. Everyone is ultimately responsible for their own security, and of that of those they care for. To entrust one’s defense to someone else, or to an institution, is naive and stupid, in the strictest definition of that word. There is nothing wrong with being prepared, and anyone who would commit a crime with a gun of any kind is going to try to do it regardless of the laws or habits of a given state. You do your neighbors and family a disservice in being unprepared.
As for “civilized” countries, Switzerland, arguably the most civilized country in the world, has universal military conscription and one of the highest rates of gun ownership of any nation. Their stability, neutrality, and high degree of cultural refinement are not unrelated to those facts.
In the words of Rousseau: “I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery”