Is your contention that the only anti-gun countries are, er, the UK and Singapore?
And to be honest, the UK surveillance thing is somewhat exaggerated; it's highly London-centric, and they're mostly privately-owned cameras; the main driving factor is the insurance industry.
Ireland, say, has some of the strictest gun laws in the developed world, and doesn't have a large number of CCTVs or other forms of surveillance.
"And to be honest, the UK surveillance thing is somewhat exaggerated; it's highly London-centric, and they're mostly privately-owned cameras; the main driving factor is the insurance industry."
The big cities is where the most crime happens. It's not really 'exaggerated'. If you legally aren't allowed to protect yourself during a crime, it's best to have a camera in place that catches the person that's doing it (and put fear in others, so the situation is avoided).
"Ireland, say, has some of the strictest gun laws in the developed world, and doesn't have a large number of CCTVs or other forms of surveillance."
I mentioned London, specifically, not big cities in general. London's crime rate is pretty much the same as England's as a whole, and many English towns and cities have much higher crime rates.
> This isn't true at all.
In what way? The only place on the island of Ireland which appears at all in the lists of heavily CCTV'd countries is Belfast, which is in Northern Ireland (part of the UK, not Ireland). Dublin (a much larger city) does not feature. Irish gun laws are generally stricter than British gun laws; in particular being allowed to have a gun for self-protection is simply not, in practice, a thing.
As far as I can see, the evidence for high surveillance in western countries being, essentially, a regional insurance company fetish far outweighs evidence that it is linked to _gun availability_.
And to be honest, the UK surveillance thing is somewhat exaggerated; it's highly London-centric, and they're mostly privately-owned cameras; the main driving factor is the insurance industry.
Ireland, say, has some of the strictest gun laws in the developed world, and doesn't have a large number of CCTVs or other forms of surveillance.