Being dim on the laws of other countries.

Among the comments I've seen about the riots in France is one wondering if this would be happening if the French were allowed to own firearms.

The French are allowed to own firearms.

There's a really weird, and dim, assumption that Americans are the only people on earth who are allowed to own firearms.  It's completely in error.  Most countries around the globe allow their citizens to own firearms. Even Japan, which is often cited as an example of complete firearms' prohibition, allows some firearms' ownership.

Lots of countries have considerably more restrictions than the US on firearms' ownership, but not all do.  Perhaps that's what confuses Americans, as we don't pay much attention; 1) beyond our own borders or 2) to anyone who doesn't speak English as their native language.  The UK has very strict firearms laws, as do Canada and Australia.  The latter two are far stricter than they should be, in my view.

But not every European country is anywhere near as strict as Americans seem to believe.  Yes, stricter than the US, but not as strict as apparently Americans commonly believe.

Interestingly, the opposite is true on abortion and surgical/chemical gender related mutilation of minors.

By and large, most European countries, maybe all European countries, are stricter than most of the US on abortion.  The US, thanks to the scientific illiteracy of Roe v. Wade, is far more bloody and liberal than Europe, by and large. FWIW, at least one large European country provides that abortion in general is illegal, but oddly allows it, on a much more restrictive basis than the US, on some odd legal reasoning basis that I don't really follow.

And on transgenderism and minors, Europe is very much beginning to ban  afflicting minors with surgery and pharmaceuticals, taking the approach, correctly, that its completely unsupported by the science.