Seeker, one very good reason our own founding fathers felt it such an important right that each American have ownership privledges regarding firearm ownership that it was incorporated into the founding documents for our country was as a method of national protection from foreign aggression.

While we as a nation have never been occupied by any foreign force you Danes cannot make such a statement as your country followed the same path of least resistance as the French in WWII by surrendering to the Germans instead of attempting to defend yourselves and as a result experienced 5yrs worth of military rule by the Germans from 1940-1945. I might add to this statement that Denmark didn't secure their freedom from the Germans either, other militaries with blood, sweat, tears and lives did it FOR you. Not surprisingly I don't hear any thanks from you for that, but you're welcome just the same.

In this link regarding information about Denmarks occupation [en.wikipedia.org] it explains that though your leaders even had advance knowledge of the pending attack, they took no actions to defend your nation and that during the takeover by the Germans there were a sum total of 16 Danes killed.

A similar situation regarding an aggressing force even in the small town where I live, with a population of less than 2,000 people would find many more than 16 dead before the dust settled and there would be severe casualties wrought upon the aggressors by the citizenry BECAUSE we are armed.

During WWII the Japanese even tendered a plan to attack the west coast of the US but scrapped the idea simply because the expected casualties such an attack would have yielded to their forces by the armed citizenry alone here was considered too great a price to make such an attack feasible or worthwhile.

The second largest reason Americans have gun ownership rights is to enable the citizens protection from an overbearing or oppressive government should such a need ever exist. What could your unarmed citizenry ever bring to bear against future aggression by another invading force or a form of government deemed to be in violation of the rights you Danes currently enjoy?

The old saying "only a fool brings a knife, rock or a stick to a gunfight" seems entirely relevant in such discussions