In a sense it’s true that "It's not the guns, it's the people" is true. It's the American people.

Other countries have legal gun ownership. Some even have a constitutional right to it. But America is the only place where mass shootings are pretty well a daily occurrence, and massacres in schools, churches and public places take place regularly, and where there is mass opposition to efforts to reduce them.

Most Americans are peaceful enough people who would never misuse guns, and that goes for most gun owners. But a very sizeable minority passionately and effectively support the ability of the lethal section of the population who do misuse guns, and who abuse their Constitutional right to possess them.

There are some people who should never have anything to do with guns, just as there are some people who should never have anything to do with anything Alcoholic. Among the nations of the world, that's America.