Banning guns vs everyone getting a gun?

No need for "everyone" to get a gun. Just the notion, that in any crowd somebody (not necessarily everybody) might shoot back is enough.

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the only policy factor to influence multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws.

>> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...

Neither idea you proposed is actually practical.

The idea of banning guns doesn't work because criminals ignore laws and will buy guns on the black market if they really want them. Not to mention, the issue of the 2nd amendment. The 2nd amendment is still there, and I don't believe in ignoring any part of the US constitution.

The idea of everyone owning and carrying a gun would be equally disastrous. Ordinary bar disagreements that normally end in a fistfight, would end in shootings if everyone owned and carried a gun at all times. Allow law abiding people to carry concealed weapons, but only with a permit.

The best system is actually what we have now. Allow law abiding people to own guns... if they want to. Make it illegal for convicted felons to own guns, and arrest them if they get caught.

Neither; this question is simplistic tosh.

Most civilised countries have a permit system which makes it easy for a person without mental health problems or a history of violent offences to have a manually loading longarm, but puts a higher threshold on permits for a pistol or semi-auto weapon.

Seems to work.

Neither.

The world is not black and white, it is not all or nothing.