"If there were fewer guns available from the outset, like in Canada and the rest of the western world..."

There are fewer guns available in Canada and the Western world than in the US? In Canada, with as many hunters as there are there, there are fewer guns available? Are you talking about legal arms availability or the general availability of weapons? Is this per capita or in total?

And the rest of the western world? Do we include Mexico, Central and South America? Africa? The Caribbean? The Balkan States? Russia? Baltic States? The other countries of Central and Southeastern Europe?

Sorry, with all due respect, and I do have a lot of respect for you, Stan, I've got to throw a BS flag on that statement.

It is true that the US has is on the liberal side of the equation when it comes legal ownership of firearms, and countries like Germany and Britain are on the other side of the spectrum. But gun ownership is legal, even the ownership of semiautomatic weapons, and even in Canada, in just about every country in the Western world. And in a number of them, illegal firearm availability is much easier than in the US.

"If I suddenly went crazy and wanted to go to a mall or a movie theatre and shoot everyone there, I would have no idea where to get a gun except the police department or the army base."

You would go to an army base or a police station to get a gun? They don't have retail gun stores in Canada? Where do hunters shop?

However, it is true that as a Canadian, you do have less access to American retail gun outlets. I don't know if the law restricts foreign sales, but time and distance would for most Canadians.