Most of the discussion has been about firearms, but I'm curious. What is the general attitude about carrying (or owning) other weapons, both melee (sword, pike, mace, quaterstaff, axe, ...) and range (sling, javelin, bow, crossbow, sarbacan, ...)? One interesting feature is that it takes months (at least) of intensive training before being able to use those effectively, which limits ownership (other than as collectibles) to people prepared to work hard to master them and negates or lowers the opportunity for militant weapon-ownership opponents to trot out the "idiots who will hurt themselves or innocent bystanders" argument.