I'm pretty happy that guns are rare here. My kids were never worried about school shootings, but those seem to happen too often in the US. We don't seem to hear very often of an armed citizen stopping a gunman. Australia just had its first major shooting incident in decades and one of the shooters was disarmed by an unarmed guy. I'm just not convinced that more guns make anyone safer. Hunting is a different issue.
I tend to agree with you there. I think a lot of people think more guns is a deterrent, but there isn't any real data to prove that fact. I'm not sure I want there to be enough data either.