What separates the United States? More guns.

The gun lobby is already going into overdrive with comments we have all heard ad nauseam after these frequent occurrences. These include the bromide that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens make our country safer. With about 400 million guns owned by civilians in this country, the United States should be the safest place in the world if this reasoning were sound. It is not. We are not safe in schools, supermarkets, churches, synagogues, mosques, cars, out in the street or in our homes.