>  Some argue that Europe is in grave danger of becoming a totalitarian
> government system because the citizens have no way of keeping governments
> in check, and they are passing stricter and stricter laws, restricting
> more and more liberties, as time passes. Europeans don't shoot back, but
> instead they submit.

That's only correct for an issue like guns, because far fewer people in 
Europe care about having a gun than in the US (as far as I can tell).  If 
any government in Europe changed the law on guns, basically nobody would 
care apart from a small minority.

Take a different issue, say tax on fuel, and suddenly people do "shoot 
back" - certainly in the UK there was havoc when fuel prices went too high, 
the government knows it cannot do anything silly here else the country will 
be brought to a standstill.

I suspect other issues which a lot of people actually care about would have 
similar outcomes if the government tried to do something they didn't like.

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