"Legal US gun owners have over 300 million guns and probably a trillion rounds of ammo. Seriously folks, if we were the problem, you'd know it."
There are illegal guns for sale in every country of the world. Anybody can make a 12 gauge shotgun in just a couple minutes with about $3 or less of parts from the hardware store. A full-auto submachine gun only has about 4 important parts and would be stupidly easy to make by anyone in probably a few hours or less.
I have a brilliant idea: Why don't we just make it illegal to commit crimes with a gun? What, it already is? Then how are there any gun crimes? Could it be that the defining point in being a criminal is that they do not follow the law and therefor any law made doesn't effect them? What about the statistical
fact that in the US the places with the most gun-control have the most gun violence and the places with the least gun-control have the least gun violence at a level so low as to be basically non-existent? Or that gun crimes in the US have fallen by about 75% in the last 20 years and the only figure keeping that percentage from being higher is because suicide has remained fairly consistent, and even that has fallen too. There are only four cities in the US with nearly all of the gun crimes in the country, and if they are not counted, US would be ranked around 100th in the world for gun crimes instead of around the top 5. Is it a coincidence that these four places also have the strictest gun laws? Somewhere like Texas where most people are probably carrying a gun, there is almost no violent crime or robberies because the criminal knows they would probably be shot. Somewhere where it is guaranteed that nobody will have a gun, criminals could do whatever they want because obviously nobody could stop them. There are always going to be several extremely simple ways for criminals to get or make a gun. Not allowing innocent civilians the right to be able to defend themselves has no affect on that.
European countries boast about having less gun violence while omitting the fact that they have "people" running over crowds with vans, stabbings, melting people's faces off with acid, bombings, rapes, and other violence at a frequency and quantity that would never happen in the US. I've heard of people in Europe getting their faces burnt off with acid all the time, and never heard of it happening in the US even once. It seems like every day there is a new story "European Muslim Runs Over Crowd With Van" or "Huge Crowd of People all Stabbed by 'Disadvantaged Migrant' with No Way to Stop Him" or "Acid Thrown in Faces of Crowd by ME immigrant." In America, there would never be a mass-stabbing because the perpetrator would probably be shot. The only reason it seems like US has a lot of mass-shootings is because the definition was changed to mean just 4 people involved. And all of the ones that do involve large crowds are committed by our own government and FBI, not just random criminals. The point is, it's pretty fucked no matter where you are, but it isn't as bad as the media tries to make it seem, and either way you need to rightfully be able to defend yourself.
Also, ever notice how the people crying "Only the police should be able to have guns" are in probably every case the exact same people crying "police brutality" and "militarization of police"