America baffles me, but that's nothing new. I've not seen guns as anything but tools for inflicting severe harm/death upon other people. Over here, the Dunblane massacre was pretty much a kick up the rear for us to get our act together when it comes to gun laws. Over in America, it seems people are a lot more apathetic towards the prospect of having their children shot at and have merely accepted that it is "normal" to own a tool designed to kill at range and sometimes in numbers as a standard household thing. Or something you even leave you house with! "House keys, wallet, phone... gun." It's a scary thought to me. The US clings desperately to an amendment which fit a society 225 years ago, where slavery was also "totally okay like." It took them nearly 100 years to figure out that it wasn't "totally okay like", but they're finding the whole "owning semi-automatic guns not being fitting for a modern society" bit a little harder to get their head around. (Though they did figure out that they should probably halt the circulation of them. Small mercies.)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list
Some interesting stats that might offer up some food for thought when it comes to the culture I've lived in as opposed to the American one; 7 years on from the analysis, but there's not been any major changes to either the UK or the US in terms of those with guns having them confiscated, or those without guns having easy access to them in the UK, and so this data is reasonably reliable for comparison between the England/Wales (I'm going to exclude Northern Ireland despite it being advantageous to my case, and Scotland lacks any gun based homicide figures, probably due to a lack of them), and the US.
Picking out the stats of importance for comparison between our RELATIVELY gun-lacking country:
England and Wales have had 44 homicides with guns, 6.6% of all of them. Total homicides are therefore approximately 667. Homicides without guns are therefore approximately 623.
The US has had 9,146 homicides with guns, and that makes up 60% of all of them. Total homicides are therefore approximately 15243. Homicides without guns are therefore approximately 6097.
At the time this survey was carried out, the population of the US was about 300,000,000, and the population of England/Wales was 54,000,000. It would be fair to say we'd therefore expect 6 times more homicides in the US compared to England/Wales, assuming that the distribution of people who would commit such acts are equally split.
Thus, for comparison I'll scale all the England/Wales homicides up by a factor of six just for more direct comparisons.
Gun based homicide:
E/W: 44 x 6 = 264.
US: 9164.
Conclusion? More guns obviously result in more homicides by gun per person. Pretty obvious.
Total Homicides:
E/W: 667 x 6 = 4002
US: 15243
Conclusion? More homicides take place in the US per head. Nearly four times as many!
Non-gun based homicides:
E/W: 623 x 6 = 3738
US: 6097
Take out the killing machines, and the numbers are quite interesting. The US is still more murderous by nature, but the difference is only an additional 63% for the US now. Could we conclude that less guns in circulation would also result in a less hostile society? I don't know.
The whole "BUT THE GOVERNMENT WILL OVERRUN US Y'ALL" is a flawed argument in this case; it's a matter of ensuring we have a fair police force that is moderated by the likes of a global watchdog. The sort of force that would prevent a corrupt government taking hold and all~
tl;dr: I'm not a fan of dangerous weapons, whatsoever.