wheatchampionwhy though, I mean I know it's in the constitution and it has a lot to do with the fact that your country was founded by the use of arms (settlers having to defend themselves against native Americans etc), but it's hard not to notice a correlation between the amount of school shootings etc and the fact that a large amount of your population is in the possession of something that is essentially a machine designed for murder.
A gun is fundamentally "man, there's a thing over there that I want killed, but I can't be bothered walking over/don't want to get close. How do I fix that?"