Bob clearly doesn't understand statistics or logic. There are no East African nations as safe or safer than the US as a whole.   He seems to think that violence against groups of people doesn't happen in Africa while ignoring attacks on malls oil fields schools and soccer matches in east Africa in the last year alone.   

The chances of being a victim of random gun violence in the US is minuscule outside of certain inner cities or crime ridden neighborhoods.  The letter writer is clearly venting their emotions and not paying any attention to logic or facts.   But then that's all the gun control groups have is emotion.