Then you simply don't understand the history of America. From the revolution, to the frontiersman, to the old west, guns have helped to preserve freedom and persevere in the face of overwhelming odds. It is the symbology and freedom of choice that set us apart. What you're seeing now, this is a distorted version of the America that many of us know. It's been distorted by the liberal (read communist) that has used the very freedoms that we love against us. The coddling, the hand holding, the social just warriors, they have perverted our system. When I was a kid, you had the same access to guns that you do now, maybe more, yet people weren't shooting up schools this way, why? What has changed? Are there more crazy people? It honestly doesn't have anything to do with guns. Most of Europe has very limited access to guns, yet they have all kinds of bombings, stabbings and cars running over people. Are you going to ban knives too? What about cars? I mean, they could be used to hurt people.