Yeah, as far as I remember, you are having at least twice more gun holders/guns per capita than here in Czech Republic. It's subjective if it is too much or too little, it always raise a question: "Too much compared to what?".
But different country, different gun laws and guns. For example, in Czech there is a lot of handguns and semi-automatic rifles, most of the gun owners (75%+) are having permit for a concealed carry (well, we can even carry a semi-automatic rifles concealed if we want, but nobody is doing that from practical reasons, open carry is strictly prohibited except few exceptions) and it's not a wild west here. Similar as you wrote - people here are generally abiding the laws and especially the gun owners, because even driving under the influence can get you into trouble and you can eventually loose your gun license. Our state even removed a paragraph about that they can confiscate all privately owned weapons in times of war, security crisis or similar reason from the gun laws this year, there is apparently a trust to the gun owners here. I am just writing this to illustrate that good gun laws may work without a need of shouting: "I am afraid of all the guns, nobody should own it because it cause me a trauma, ban it all!" (of course, I am slightly exaggerating here (and it's not definitely targeted against you))
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