Not trying to be offensive, but you really show your ignorance about fire arms in your post. I’ve seen people miss their target at only 3 meters under a no stress situation (If you want to know why. I can tell you in detail why, many people who have no firearm training are horrible shots at point blank, much less at range). It is not as simple as picking up the gun and pulling the trigger. That right there tells me you speak from the point of view of someone who has never handled a firearm. If someone said shooting a bow was as easy as picking up the bow notching an arrow, and pulling back, would you not call bullshit on their incredibly inaccurate account for using a bow?

As for our “obsession” with firearms goes, many of us enjoy range shooting, and competition with our firearms. Don’t forget that bow you use is a weapon as well. It’s purpose when it was first made was to kill, and it’s use as a weapon killed millions since its invention (recently here in the US you wont see it blasted on the news because it wasn’t a gun. But a a man in Wyoming killed his dad’s live in girlfriend with a knife, then went to the school where his dad taught, and shot and killed his dad with an arrow to the head from a bow, then used a knife to off himself.) Anything you can put your hands on has been used as a weapon.

Our problem here in the states has nothing to do with gun ownership. Blaming a inanimate object is down right pants on head retarded. Our problem is both a social issue, and a mental health issue. It can be summed up in one word. Greed. “The weak are meat, and the strong shall eat” That pretty much sums it up. When people have a good education, a home, a good paying job, and are healthy then all is great. When they don’t that is when there are problems. We have allot of people with mental illness here who are not receiving help. We have a wealth gap that keeps increasing at the same time the middle class keeps shrinking. When people get desperate from the rushing feeling of no hope, and no future that is when many break. Some just kill themselves. Some kill their whole family. And some who are very mentally unstable, and are either mad at the world, or delusional with wanting their name remembered, do something like killing children. Banning guns ignores the problem. It is like bailing a sinking boat without fixing the hole that is sinking the boat. You can bail and bail and bail, but if you don’t plug the hole that is sinking you, then soon you will be overwhelmed and resting on the bottom. Ignoring the real problem just sinks you faster. Our country has a real problem, and it isn’t with guns. Guns are but a tool. A deadly tool yes, but just one of many that people will pick up when they have no hope left.

Give people hope, and happiness. Stop this runaway greed that is taking place. Stop going to war, and focus on schools. Rebuild our education system with the money we spend on war. Stop giving million, and billionaires tax cuts It does not lead to job growth (the whole reason for giving them the tax cuts). Stop the shrinking of the middle class. Start helping the mentally ill. Give people hope for a future. These are some of the things that will lower crime in this country.