I try to stay away from the gun debate (as well as abortion, politics and religion and all the other no right and wrong debates) as I am a hunter, gun owner from hand guns to muzzle loader, but i see good and bad on both sides. One of my biggest complaints about guns in America is not that people have guns, the guns never killed anyone but the dumb ass with the gun is the problem. Kind of like the retired cop that shot a dude in a movie theater for texting , now that is stupid.
My point is if we are going to give people guns we need to do more to give them some training and ethics, our troops are trained, cops are trained but we give Joe blow a gun and give them little training on using it. True Training on the use of a hand gun would not prevent the dude in the movie theater from shooting the texter, but hopefully they would respect the power that they have.
No easy answer to this if there is one. strong feelings on both sides.
I also think there is parity is SM, now that is controversial