Gottcha Johnnie. Sorry for the over reaction. The real problem is not so much that everyone here has a gun, but rather that too many nut cases have guns. If they became illegal to own, the law abiding citizen would turn in his weapon but you know the criminal and the nutters wouldn't. What would that do? it would make the law abiding citizen vulnerable to the crooks.

A few years ago in Florida, there was a rash of robberies and shootings. It got so bad that tourists stopped going there. I was one of them.
Then, the state legislature passed a "right to carry" law, and the crime rate went into the cellar. The bad guys knew that his "victim" might well be armed too, and they don't like an even playing field. Without that advantage of a weapon, they are nothing.

In NYC the Sullivan Law forbids carrying a gun, yet they have a very high crime rate. Why? because the crooks couldn't care less abut the law! They are law breakers anyway. Added to the problem is the fact that anyone can walk into a gun store in Georgia and buy a gun, or a dozen guns, and you don't have to prove that you are sane or don't have a criminal record. Many of those guns find their way to NYC in spite of the law.(Witness the recent massacre in Virginia)

Guns are also against the law in Washington DC, the city with the highest murder rate in the whole country. Again, guns travel well.