"Aggravate the problem", now there's an understatement if I ever heard one. I could either challenge or run away from a "crazy" man if he wasn't able to put a 5.56 round into me no matter what I did.
Their gun laws aggravate what is a societal problem with emotional instability and lack of empathy for others. They are not the source of the problem. As the gun nuts would point out, America has ALWAYS had tons of guns laying around, but it's only recently that these mass killing sprees against strangers have started to really explode. Why wasn't this happening much in the 1950s or 1960s? Or, for that matter, the 1930s? Lot of miserable people in the great depression, tons of poverty and hopelessness. Were kids taking dad's guns to school and shooting people? Not that I ever read about. And why doesn't this happen in Black areas? When a black kid shoots people at school its usually a specific target. I can't recall an incident where a black kid went to school in Harlem or Compton and just shot up kids at random.