If guns didn’t exist we would be ruled by war lords in bands of regional control. It would be like Boko Harem at best. We would also be speaking Hun.
With private gun ownership, we will have tragedies.
Without private gun ownership, we will have genocide.
Amazing how many supposedly competent adults don’t comprehend that all too often the alternative to “bad” isn’t “no bad”, that what we have isn’t perfect but it’s better than the alternatives.