Guns shouldn't be illegal. If someone wanted to kill people they would find another way to do so.

Actually a rifle would do the job.  Once you kill one, I highly doubt the pack would be back at your resident.  Killing them all would just introduce another problem as the preditory are gone and the other wild life go crazy.

Maybe instead of trying to mitigate the symptom as the main goal (i.e. having people commit mass murder with other weapons instead of guns), we should try to understand why people are driven to commit such heinous acts in the first place, and try to approach the situation from that angle? To try to stop the attempt from even happening.

Cause and effect.

Pretty much everyone can own guns. That means that criminals need guns as well, otherwise they would be at a disadvantage. Thus, cops have to expect that every criminal or suspicious guy owns a gun, which makes them draw their gun much faster.
Mass shootings are just the most obvious observation but it goes much deeper.

Yeah, obviously in this economy people are going to do vile things to make a profit. But without guns, how are we even going to be able to defend ourself from an opponent with tanks, all kinds of weaponry, helicopters, etc?

They said the shooter had her OF cards.  He might have stole the.  She lives outside of the country and is not wanted in connection with the shooting.  They want to know how he got her stuff.

Calm down and leave this lady alone.

Not here. The US sells guns to other countries like Mexico which would just give the Cartels an even larger funding source. Criminals would just get even more weapons that are completly untraceable and still use them.  All making them illegal does is give riminals more revenue and another commodity in high demand while leaving law abiding citizens at the mercy of those criminals. 

They go up for two reasons. The first and the smaller factors, people buy guns to feel safe. The second and bigger driver of gun sales is because of the Left. You look at responses by politicians right now and its the right giving condolenses and the left talking about gun control. After any shooting that is the typical response from the left and media. BAN GUNS. And what does the threat of banning something do? Instantly increases sales. Heck, this forum loves teh whole Nintendo's artificial scarcity conspiracy theory, yet they seem surprised everytime gun sales increase.

Hell if I didn't know any better I would think the NRA has the democrats in their pocket.

That's who I meant we had to defend ourselves from.

Thats because the people with sense understand the idiot Democrats will immedietly go off on some tangent about banning guns. The latest is on Silencers, even though a Silencer has absolutly nothing to do with this issue, its a bill they have on the floor and will use whatever they can to get it through.