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Canada is the closest analogue and has much stricter gun laws than the U.S., although laxer than most of Europe. Russia also has very strict gun control, although I don’t know how enforced that is in Siberia. India, dangerous wild animals living alongside humans- super strict gun control, and villagers are too poor to buy guns anyways.
South Africa has a large rural population and still has dangerous wild animals. I’m aware that there is an Afrikaans speaking gun culture but I don’t believe that the actual laws on the books are notably loose, and anyways crime rates are so high there that self defense is just mathematically dominated by common criminals.
Where else? I suppose Australia technically has dangerous wild animals in great variety, but guns are tightly controlled there.
While this is strictly speaking true it is slightly (and inadvertently) misleading. Australia's most dangerous animals are not ones that you can stop with a gun - an assault rifle will do nothing to stop you from being bitten by a funnel web spider that had moved into your shoe, a perfectly camouflaged snake that you stepped on or a small, transparent jellyfish floating 30 metres away from you. People in rural areas still use them and don't have much difficulty getting them.
Carrying a gun for snakes isn’t totally unknown.
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Vast majority of Australian wild animals are only really going to cause you issues if you step on them or you're pretty far off the beaten track.
Dingos and saltwater crocs are technically dangerous to people, are they not? No bears, snakes and monitor lizards avoid people, no big cats. I suppose guns are pretty useless against saltwater crocodiles in general but still.
You’re not going to get attacked by a grizzly in a suburb either, you’d have to be way off the beaten track.
Grizzlies no, black bears maybe.
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I know somebody who just got back from safari in South Africa. Apparently suppressors are near-universal there; it’s considered rude not to use one. But accessing guns was extremely lenient.
Argentina is another lax one. Big history of ranching.
Argentina has no dangerous wildlife(to humans) to speak of- argentine pumas are known for not even being willing to defend themselves against human assailants, jaguars have only a marginal presence, and the South American canid species are too small and tame to threaten people. I suppose theres bushmasters and rattlesnakes but guns are less helpful against snakes than macro predators.
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