@TonyStark it's just so vile.
It's absolutely the guns.
But the right wing fear machine isn't helping at all. Crime is at near historic lows and people are acting like it's Cabot Cove 1984-1996.*
*The joke, for any who don't get it, is the town murder she wrote was set in, if it were real and had that many murders, would have been the murder capital of the world right about the peak of violent crime in actual US history.