...and the point I am trying to make is if you don't have a gun you cannot shoot anyone. Years ago it was sensible to have an armed 'militia' to defend your country, those were the days of hand to hand combat. Now countries fight at long range with unmanned drones etc, the need for an armed populace is old fashioned and out dated.

I watch a lot of UK tv and unless you are putting shotguns into their own exempt category, those are fairly common in the English countryside. How do farmers protect their chickens and other domesticated animals from predators such as foxes for example? Blow guns?

And you yourself mention in your quote the folly of EVER preventing access to illegal weapons which only serves to reinforce the final point I made.

What about all the violence in video games, on TV and in movies that can act as trigger to the mind of unstable individuals.
Many things would need to be addressed in addition to gun control to help minimize these horrendous tragedies.
Minimize sadly being the key word because the crazed and/or disturbed copycat still can slip by undetected.

I don't think there's been a single reputable peer-reviewed article that has ever established a reliable connection between video game violence and real life violence.

And you realize that this was one of the main arguments against legalizing pornography as well - that is it would somehow rot the moral core of society or other similar arguments.

In fact, video game violence has about as much in common with real life violence I suspect as cartoon violence such as Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

The subject is controversial. There are many factors involved. The state of one's mind, i.e., how the game is perceived by the player is paramount to the issue.
Those already predisposed to violence can possibly be affected by violent games.

Some researchers believe that while playing violent video games leads to violent actions, there are also biological influences that impact a person's choices.
According to Sean P. Neubert of Rochester Institute of Technology, a person who is biologically predisposed to aggression will be more strongly influenced
by violent scenes and thus will have a greater risk for carrying out destructive actions. For example someone with antisocial personality disorder has a
greater risk of going out and shooting someone after playing hours of Grand Theft Auto or a game of a similar nature.