Good guys and guns

So, I’ve been thinking a lot about how all these good guys with guns are supposed to protect us from bad guys with guns.  You know what?  They already are– they are called police officers.  As for the rest of the good guys with guns?  They are already out there and not stopping the now-regular drumbeat of mass shootings.  Pretty much everybody who wants to pack heat in their daily life and be one of those “good guys” can quite readily do so.  Concealed carry laws are everywhere and pretty much anybody can buy a gun.  So, why aren’t more “good guys” saving us?  Because the truth is very few Americans actually want to live in a Wild West society where the only thing protecting us is an absurdly high frequency of ordinary citizens armed with guns.  The vast majority of Americans don’t want to be that guy carrying their gun everywhere in case there is a maniac about.  Again, those that do probably already are because there is nothing in the law stopping them.  And clearly, there’s not nearly enough of them to stop the disturbingly regular mass shootings (not to mention all the far more common and far more “ordinary” gun crime).  So, the “more guns, less crime” argument (already pretty well shot down by research) just does not hold up to logical scrutiny under our present legal regime.  What might help?  Less guns and a far more serious approach to regulating them.