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It's also geography and ecology. If you live somewhere where a large, heavily armoured reptile could invade your living space and threaten you, your family, your livestock you want the appropriate tools to deal with it. The same can be said for the mobile fur coats living in other areas.

These districts often tend to be sparsely populated with more difficult travel conditions. Assistance can take some time to arrive and you may not be particularly skilled in operating firearms - you need help to hit what you need to hit.

Guns of any type are a tool and it's not restricting types of tool people can get that needs most attention but the types of people who are allowed to get the tool, and maybe where they are allowed to be taken. Certainly you can do less damage with a single pistol than an array of assault weapons but that doesn't help if it's your child/wife/parent that is the one person killed before the assailant is dealt with.