Please explain...gun ownership you say is high...but what is their carry law for concealed and open?
I have no idea what their concealed carry laws are!** (see below) I have a little "church gun," a Seecamp 32ACP and I carry it around all the time. You can go a month without seeing a live cop. You can live here for 6 months and never hear a cop siren. (ambulances are different sounding) I've never seen an arrest take place. I've never seen or heard of body-armoured cops in a SWAT team. It's just not something we need or want.
I've never, ever seen anyone open carry except in the 'country' where it's not uncommon for folks to have shotguns on the horse and in the car.
**This is a country very different from the USA! In the USA, we expect to ask for and get permission from the government before we exercise our rights. Your question is a case study in what I'm trying to say!
No one asks permission to carry a gun. We mind our own business. Period.
It is perfectly legal to drive down the road without a seatbelt, drinking a beer and smoking a joint, while texting and carrying a gun. You're not breaking any laws. And even if you were, there's no mechanism in place to catch or punish you.
If you want a large pond/small lake on your property, you don't need to pay for EIR's and get extensive permits from government agencies who will all take their pound of flesh and leave their mark on your project. There's nothing resembling that here. If we want a pond, we dig a hole! It's our land! We own it.
Having said that, there are "voices" saying guns should be restricted and freedoms should be attenuated pending permission.....these are from the "conservative" party of government, which is another way of saying the "Pro-USA" portion of the government. These are assholes who want to bring in the drug war, the police state, IMF money and American "advisors" in order that they can enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else.
They are mostly ignored and their policies will never be obeyed by the people. They have ruined parts of the banking laws and would certainly like to build up a US-style bureaucracy, start taxing, minding folks business, regulating, etc. I think they're about at the end of their line.
For the most part we simply do not see, feel, hear, taste or smell government in our lives. Should US-style assholes try to insert themselves too much, people will ignore them or riot in the streets!
The mentality here is quite different. We all own our property outright and most of the country is small family farms and estancias. There's no way they'll ever subjugate us like has happened in America. People have backbones here.