LONDON — For years, many Europeans have seen the United States as the epitome of the Wild West, where gun control laws are weak, too many people own weapons and violent crime is widespread. That helps explain why so many Europeans are shocked by recent serious gun crimes in their countries, including several mass killings and the July 14 attempt to assassinate the French president. The disparate attacks do not seem to have a common cause and few are blamed on... (GunPolicy.org)