Questions for our American friends

Why when there is a mass shooting does it seem like a lot of people's solution is more guns?
As outsiders looking in how exactly would that help?
And why is the suggestion of reducing guns such a sore topic?

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

There's been a fifty-year campaign of intense culture shift towards treating firearms as something that is not just a legal right, but a moral good - something you HAVE to own. This campaign is deliberate and importantly, involves a lot of money. And when that mass propagation of firearms has consequences, the result is to, well, say that clearly the problem is not enough guns.

The notion that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun is a pretty simple one. And even though entities like the NRA have collapsed, they have no purpose anymore. American culture is changed and a huge number of Americans treat right to arms as a right more scared than the right to food, housing, and clean water.