I think that your paragraph explanation is a bit short sighted. I do believe that stopping people who have mental issues or have a past of violence and crimes should not be allowed to own a gun, but banning everyday citizens from owning guns doesn't stop bloodshed. It's an amendment right of ours to possess guns.

So while I agree that there should be much better and stricter vetting of guns in the U.S., I disagree that taking them all away is a viable solution to the problem. As we've seen, it doesn't take a gun to kill someone. It takes a lunatic.