The arguments for having more guns as a solution to the gun violence in America just make no sense. America already the highest concentration of guns in the world with 88.8 firearms per 100 people. Gun violence is proportional to the number of guns available. 

So while I abhor what happened in Newtown CT, the calls for new gun control laws seem unlikely to have any significant impact as long as we already have almost 300 million guns in the wild. Unless and until we dramatically reduce the number of weapons, the violence will almost assuredly continue unabated.