And yet, with all the guns this country has, you'd think it was wall to wall carnage with that type of mindset, when in reality, the facts demonstrate areas with far more "gun control", have far higher violent crime, especially in those so called "gun free zones", (cues the images of the streets of urban Chicago & DC) while those areas in this country with more permissive gun laws, have less violent crime.
But back to the point made, in that we've had a "gun culture" for a long time now, and its only been over the last couple of decades, that legislators are trying to curb it with where you can't have a gun.