PaulMB
pfm Member
I think one should distinguish between organized "professionals" like terrorist groups or criminal gangs and individual nutters. Stringently restricting gun sales will never stop the former from obtaining weapons (think of the IRA, the Red Brigades, Al Qaeda, RAF, drug gangs, bank robbers, etc.), but it will stop a maniac who suddenly decides to exterminate his family, or to start shooting at people in a school, having obtained guns from shops or mail order.