Many other industrialized countries in the world do just fine without civilians owning guns: Absolutely lower gun related deaths. We are deemed very violent country statistically with guns. There's no denying number of civilian gun ownership factors into the statistics.

My eyes got teary when I face the incident, and I got angry when the CEO of NRA made a speech blaming violent video games on everything gone bad.

PNG is right that we don't have resources to manage the mentally ill to prevent them to cause carnage.

I live in a upscale gated estate all the home's value is above few mils, people here are well to do and very private. Few years back there was a crazy old lady terrorizing neighbors such as taking others mails, popping out like "jack in the box" in their neighbors backyards multiple times. Neither she owned a gun, nor neighbors who got their backyards broke into did own a gun. No blood was splashed... It was going on several month about one incident a week. Nobody wanted to confront including her son so I had to step up and call Sheriff's dept. know that would be only way for her to get mental help. Including a young female deputy taking a report from me blamed me for taking on old innocent grandma who could be my mom. The deputy shut herself off after finding out she has taken other neighbors car key from the RV parked and attempted to drive off his car even though she didn't have a drivers Lic. She was taken in to custody and sent off to mental facility... I found her on my street 2 weeks later, was released because they were too crowed. she eventually foreclosed her home.

Lesson learned? If I didn't have her arrested for B&E, her illness would have never been documented. If any of the parties involved owned a gun, somebody definitely would have been shot.

Americans' appetite for guns are like for giant SUV's. It feels good to own them even though you don't really need them just in case something horrible happens out of blue.

They have to be pried out American's arms to enforce gun regulation...
We like them too much to be taken away.

I am familiar with gun, and properly trained but I don't want them in my house, and I stay as far as possible from people who are fond of them, cause I know what they can do, and I know most of people who own them are not qualified to exercise the respect the firearm commands.
Just my opinion.