Heavycola, I have a compromise. The US will give up guns....

If the UK, Japan, Sweden and all other "first world" nations that have monarcies, abolish the crown and their hereditary aristocracies (no more kings, dukes, barons, knighted people, etc.). Since, according to your vaulted exhortations, gun ownership is a barbaric anachronism, it is disgustingly hypocritical that you would allow the Crown to go unchalledged. This means, specifically for Britain; the forced abdictation of the Royals, abolishment of the House of Lords (in favor of a legislative house that fills the same role, if it is needed. If not, Britain can get along fine without it), the formal change of name from the United Kingdom to simply Great Britain and the removal of the term "royal" from such things as the British Royal Marines and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Similar actions are expected from other monarchial states. It is only under these conditions that the US will enact gun polices identical to those practiced in the nation of Switzerland.