12 states on path to carry guns with no permits

[gerhard1]

Not a chance.

The history of Europe and the relationship between government and the people is one that evolved from master/slave, lord/serf, king/subject to government/subject. The people have no experience or expectation of being treated as anything else but a subject.

Subjects do pretty much what they're told to do by their masters. And in Europe the masters have learned the hard way that armed subjects have a very bad habit of tossing out and/or removing the heads of masters who don't play nice.

It may be a bit premature to write off Europe. While there is no real movement that I have heard about to loosen gun laws in many European nations, I do know that in at least two Central European countries, (Austria and the Czech Republic) CCW permits are fairly easy to get.