Even one of the commenters gets it.
Most of us on the left are conflating the idea of not requiring guns with the practice of not allowing guns. The ends are confused with the means. But the paradox is that restoring gun rights will ultimately reduce gun necessity.
THANK YOU, yes.
How many purely sociopathic massacres of innocent people were there in the US when you could buy a Thompson at the local hardware store?
When everyone carried a revolver as a matter of dress attire? Twain wrote of that. So did everyone else, pretty much. Why do we never hear that anyone walked into an office with a LeMat, with nine shots of .40 caliber and one shotgun blast, to kill co-workers? Perhaps because they knew that lots of the co-workers had revolvers in their desks and vests?
The 1911 was available to buy long before the gun control laws. It was just as effective then as it is now, but curiously, there weren't workplace and school rampages with them.