There is something deeply relieving about seeing policemen on bicycles or on foot, who are polite and courteous because they don't have to put up with the kind of hardened criminals which are all too prevalent in American Society today. It is simply not true, as the American Rifle Association claims, that people kill, and not handguns. Of course not. He would have been overpowered by the adults at the school who would not have been fleeing his revolver. If they could only attempt suicide with a knife or pills, there is a far greater likelihood of saving them in hospital than a bullet to the head would ever allow.
Guns are immoral and offensive.
And while I can see their need in a country like Israel when there is unfortunately constant danger from terror attack, I see no justification in a country like Britain. They should, indeed, be banned.