I don't know what's between place and quasi, but the man in the photo, his brain is fried. Just fried. I like guns, and if I felt a need to carry one for self defence, it would be out of sight and a .22 Magnum. I've seen in real life the damage done by various calibres to leather bound meat, bone and muscle (I inflicted some of it), so that will do for something as comparatively weak as human skin. Unless someone is wearing heavy winter clothing the organ behind what a .22 Magnum hits will fail. Except for a lung, that will fill with blood. But I don't live over there, didn't go to its schools and don't watch their film or television.

He could be like the Greeks and Italians who immigrated to Australia after WWI, who saw guns as a sign of manhood, shot livestock, tractors parked in paddocks, water tanks, road signs, left farm gates open and were such a source of cultural tension that Australia issued its first firearms licences in the 1930's as a result. If we had never let them in, we probably still wouldn't have such things. As we had no problem before.

It's amazing what protestantism and the Living Wages Case will do to stabilise a society. For the impact of protestantism you just have to look at the history of Britain and northern Europe - private warfare stopped. And the Living Wages Case means people are not desperate, even when they have a job.