@OWTFWN: Look I won't deny that the media gives us some bad impressions - look at that fool who shot his own kid at the gun range when he tried get a spent shell casing out of his shirt! But then there's a deeper issue here which gun ownership camouflages - some people shouldn't be allowed to be parents and that's a world wide thing not just an American thing. I mean I live in a pretty rural area near a border. One of our neighbour's lets her 13 yo daughter go wandering through a field just as it's getting dark - no gun is going to stop some ISIS dude from pinching her and sending her to Syria. Now someone could make it a gun issue but essentially it's a stupidity issue that hasn't been publicized.