I agree with you poirot. We never want to emulate the crazy gun laws in America.
I would like to see gun shooting removed from the Olympics and the banning of gun 'clubs' too.

The "hunt -em -down and shoot-em-up" good ol boys mentality is surely a bit old-fashioned now.

Guns are only needed by farmers, law enforcement agencies , and military groups.
Any one else using them should be against the law...

Individual, on multiculturalism being a cause of violence, it is and it isn't.
The U.S.A is an empire, like Rome it's isolated outposts are often violent places, much of Detroit is now just on the frontier of America , so are Bankstown and Brixton, the low element of those communities is partially civilised, partly barbarian savage.
You need a gun to protect yourself from robbery, rape and death in a lot of the outlying parts of the U.S empire, Melbourne's Haddara "Gangstas" need guns to protect themselves from the Chaouk "Gangstas", Brixton's Jamaican "Gangstas" need guns to protect themselves from the local Somali and Pakistani "Gangstas"...and so on.
With regard to the recent high profile attacks, it seems that the most recent two were murder suicides by otherwise "sane" men both of whom were desensitised and trained to kill by the U.S Army, Jared Loughner and James Holmes are both seemingly mentally ill so their illness has to be taken the primary cause of their actions.
I'd respond to your post with "Yes, all of the above", the American empire's problem with violence is at once a racial, economic, political, philosophical and emotional problem.

Anyone who thinks taking guns of honest citizens, & not the criminals is a good idea, must be soft in the head, or live, in a nice leafy green suburb of a nicely policed area.

The nutters will never have any problem acquiring guns, to think they will is living in another fools paradise.

Neither will otherwise honest citizens, who feel they need one, due to living in areas where about the only policing is speed cameras on the main road some kilometers away.

Pity, I have a couple of friends who are now criminals, as they will not go through the pantomime of belonging to a gun club, but will not leave their families unprotected.

in individual the point is America uses guns like lolly's.
Hasbeen it is not wise to generalize, to say every one who thinks different than you is soft in the head is madness.
Should war break out, at any age, I will serve my country, find a gun weapon and give my best.
This bush born bloke never flaunted a gun, no chance mine would be loaded in Transite or on display, unless to fellow shooters.
America is the subject, and its availability of k47 type weapons.
I doubt it is different than us, gun ownership often saw big reductions in roadside signs live stock by the road and water tanks.
At least some protection against dropkicks getting a gun exists here.
Per head of population America kills more unarmed and innocent bystanders than any other western country.
Do we think the very opposite to our laws is better?
Should house wives carry weapons of death in the hand bag.
How would we feel about being witness to mass murder down at our local shopping center?

The right to bear arms is enshrined in the US Constitution.
And the general feeling there is, "Gun control is victim
disarmament!"

And this isn't about to change any time soon.

The killings will go on and it will take something
spectacular and tragic for any US President to have
the balls to make any changes because politically
it would not be a popular move. They can always argue
away the reasons for the violence (nutt jobs, or the
very varied and strong racial and cultural mix that exists
in the US, and so on). Many Americans look upon gun control
as a loss of freedom.

It will take decades before this changes.

Over 30,000 gun deaths a year (not to mention the many thousands more who are merely wounded and survive)....

....in the land of hope and freedom.

Seems a tad dysfunctional to me.