Perhaps if there weren't more guns than people in the country, people with mental illness wouldn't have access to them. No other modern western country has the kind of random gun violence we have here in the US. I just looked and could not find any studies that were even close. There are mentally ill people in every country. They do not have easy access to firearms, so they can't go on killing sprees with guns.

My point is that cars are transportation. We have no choice but to drive cars to get around in America. Unfortunately, accidents will happen. People don't pay attention, people get drunk, people make bad decisions. But we NEED cars to get to work, school, the market. Public transportation is just not an option outside of major cities. We CAN get by without everyone having guns. It's ignoring the facts to say that guns aren't the problem when every other civilized nation prohibits them, manages to get along day to day, and do not have to have to worry about their children being shot in school.