By the way, the initial point I was (perhaps inartfully) trying to make was that "more guns === more shootings" in part because there are lots of types of shoot

By the way, the initial point I was (perhaps inartfully) trying to make was that "more guns === more shootings" in part because there are lots of types of shootings. Accidents and suicides, mainly. Those are incredibly common, and simply reducing the availability of guns is a fabulous way of decreasing both.