I am getting so sick of hearing this argument: "Even hammers have been used to murder people there have been no calls to ban hammers". That's because hammers were designed to hit nails and have a useful and practical other purpose. Guns on the other hand are designed to shoot bullets and fast moving bullets are designed to kill things.

And as pulse said, it would be hard to kill 12 people in a cinema with a hammer.

NZ has always had tight gun control, and as pulse said Australia now is, crime is lower than the US and we don't have guns to defend ourselves.

That said, it is easier to police the movements of guns into a country when that country is an island with strict border controls at both air and sea ports. It is different for a country like the US, but that just makes it harder, not impossible.

As for it being England's fault, the law can be changed, and has been in England.