Mr Macaw wrote:

/ I get your point but there's also the gun accidents where some
poor kid goes to the store to get some Skittles and tea and gets gunned
down by some crazed gun-nut wanna-be-cop./

There is, obviously, a huge difference between law abiding gun owners
and criminals. By in large, the gun "problem" involves criminals.

No guns, no armed criminals.

Fine. Let 3 thugs with bats come at you. You have a bat, they
have a bat. Now everyone is equally armed. Good luck with that.