Yes , I know . But I come from a place where it isn ' t trivial to get your hands on a gun , and any usage is controlled e . g . limited to rangessporting events . That means that you just don ' t see them at all in the streets , and whilst some criminals do have them many more don ' t because of the risk of getting caught and the higher penalty if they do . The last mass shooting was in 1987 that triggered a change in the law to make handguns illegal . Shotguns rifles are ok for sporting use and with licensing but the regulations concerning storage are quite strict . So whenever people talk about guns , it ' s something I simply cannot relate to . I don ' t understand why people would want to have readily accessible means of murder easily to hand . Although I know at least part of that is because I don ' t have that kind of lethal force threat ubiquitously present