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>>11 here. Just to clarify, I am not "Tom S."
Secondly, of course gun availability and armed crime are related. But that's like saying that having a penis makes you more likely to rape someone. The reasons for rapes and killings are based around the psychology of the individual. It's illogical and irrational to entertain anything opposed to this.
It's important that we keep in mind that humans have been killing each other and finding reasons to justify those killings way before the first firearm was invented. While I don't think that everyone carrying a gun is a sign of a utopia, I certainly don't think it's outside of the realm of possibly that if someone other than the murderer had a firearm, that may have been able to protect themselves and others (you know, like the police) and possibly prevent the lost of 32 lives.
Best case scenario is that the murderer would've gotten a hold of a knife and STILL killed the two kids in the dorm.