The polarizing topic of gun control in the U.S. is once again in the national and world spotlight as gun manufacturer PARA USA calls for a boycott of the film Taken 3. The film’s lead actor, Liam Neeson, told a reporter last week that he felt there were too many guns in America. During the interview he added, “Every week now we’re picking up a newspaper and seeing ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”

While the debate over the constitutionality of gun control laws rages, Neeson’s comment exemplifies the critical view of the rest of the world on gun control in the U.S. Nations such as France, Germany, the U.K. and Australia have strict gun control laws that make it difficult for anyone to own firearms. Political scientists and politicians say that is something not likely to change despite the recent attacks on the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris.

Mark Barnes, the director of the International Association for the Protection of Civil Arms Rights, highlights the difference in the European and American cultural views on gun control. When asked if the attacks would change European views or laws on citizens possessing guns for self protection he responds, “It’s certainly a logical question to ask, because it’s so ingrained in Europe that the state is responsible for protecting its citizens.”

Many Americans believe that it is a basic right to bear arms and have vehemently defended this right in the past, despite growing statistics highlighting the instances of deaths by firearms every year. According to the Council on Foreign Relations the United States, “with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has about 35-50 percent of the world’s civilian owned guns.” The Council on Foreign Relations also reports that the “United States also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate among the world’s most developed nations, though some analysts say these statistics do not necessarily have a cause and effect relationship.”

The consensus view from abroad is that the United States will never do anything to actually prevent atrocities such as mass shootings from occurring again. “No American politician is brave enough to propose a cure to this repetitive insanity, which would be a sensible and responsible new attitude towards the ownership and use of guns,” blasts British reporter Brian Masters.

Israeli commentator, Tzipi Shmilovitz, was very critical of the United States’ gun control laws when he said, “America is not ready to talk about how it is easier to get a handgun than it is to see a doctor… It is just willing to sweep up everything under the carpet of tears.”

With a world critical of gun control in the U.S., many feel there must to be a way to remove guns from the popular culture of America without taking away a citizen’s right to own firearms. Some feel better teaching or a cultural upheaval is in need, or perhaps an organized national outcry such as the Civil Rights movement from the 60s, or the suffrage movement in the early 20th century.

In the meantime the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports that the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) seized a record number of loaded guns from carry on luggage in 2014.