I know this is an old thread, but I can't help responding to this.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic...or serious?
Not every American owns a gun. I do not personally own one. But my "boyfriend" does. He has an assault rifle, as well as some sort of handgun? I don't know much about guns.
His guns stay locked inside a safe, for which I do not have the code- by my own design though. I was drinking heavily when I first started living here with him, and I told him never to give me the code, for fear I'd impulsively use one of the guns on myself. (I was trying so goddamn hard to give life a real shot back then. Heh, pun.)
Anyway. I don't think it's super easy for each and every American to access firearms like the news suggests. Or maybe it is? Fuck, I don't know what I'm going on about...I'm still half asleep.