Guns are WAY easier than bombs to acquire and use. More precise, too.
Guns are WAY more lethally efficient than knives or hammers.
Why throw a plentiful supply of guns into a population of too many who struggle with mental health issues?
Pedophiles get country club prisons. Undocumented fruit pickers get abandoned landing strip tents and cages in the Everglades.
Got it.
Not at all messed up.