Guns are tools, of course, and many people sort of lose it when they receive these tools... which we can definitely see in mass shootings statistics in countries where gun control laws are strict vs countries where govts are on gun manufacturers' payroll but masquerade it as "protecting 2nd amendment". (And don't even start with "checking mental health" of potential customer, because when was the last time someone did so?) This is the real harm, not some imaginary "protect ourselves from oppressive government" (when was the last time any of folk who said this took the gun & "protected himself" from a govt official? We can drown in semantics if we want, we can speak about "governmental control" being "inherently bad" whatever we want, but since we don't have more effective and urgent counter policy to offer, I thing gun control measures definitely should be applied.