The upward spiral of the universe demands a sense of trust for the Pursuit of Happiness to be maintained.  Our culture is crawling towards it, and it will happen, but only when we can rely on things like knowing each other, allowing each to exist as is, making way for differences in behavior, etc  The ethics of gun ownership does not now depend of what was written many hundreds of years ago.  That we still allow massive amounts of guns to rule the world, even to our own neighborhoods, even to those so far, is a form of societal dysfunction in this era.  The errors in thinking that must be applied, in order to construct support for such a condition as the one we have created, are numerous. But more than that, it is inertia.  Only people whose family has been impacted by gun violence are getting busy.   Their number is growing. But someone needs to say this business of making and selling guns that massacre us in double digits at a time is wrong.  It is not even close to being a "right".