And you wonder why I am glad to be away from all this BS living safely in Finland? Guns are difficult to get but people do get their hands on them. The weapon of choice here until recently has always been the knife. Now it is the car, as in driving through groups of pedestrians. Trucks have been used elsewhere in the EU and UK.
Mine is a bit smaller this this one. We all seem to have them, and a few use them. Would I ever use one on another creature? No, unless my life totally depended on it. But then I still respect life. The knife by itself won't harm anyone. That takes a human being to pick it up and use it. That gun is the same way. If every single gun in the US was picked up right now and destroyed, people would resort to a different weapon, like they do here in Europe.