America after Bush

Fareed Zakaria has written in Newsweek on where USA is now and and what it should be looking at in the coming years.

The Gun Culture in USA

B S Prakash writes about the prevalent concept which seems to be that "guns are a right and a necessity" in the US. If the the majority of the Americans are right, why is the overwhelmingly much larger majority outside of the US wrong about the need to bear arms ? {Interestingly : If "Democracy" means that decision of the majority of the people is to be observed, then surely USA is an anachronism within the world's citizenry ?}