Gun Control in the USA vis-a-vis India

One thing which is still commendable about India is that it has strict laws regarding the usage of armed weapons. Imagine if everybody had a right to own guns, the crime graph would jump multi-fold. You can buy a gun freely in USA as it is available everywhere just like you go to buy your toothpaste in India. Statistics reveal that almost 50% of the households own a gun. Check out this link (http://www.justfacts.com/issues.guncontrol.asp) for more statistics and facts about the consequences of poor gun control laws. How many of you have heard about school shootings in India? In the USA, it is regular occurence for children to carry firearms to school. The need of the hour is to enact strict laws on usage and ownership of weapons to avoid the Columbine school massacre in 1999 or the more recent Virginia Tech incident wherein a South Korean student shot dead 33 people and killed himself. Only the armed forces and the police should have access to weapons and that too only during official duty. However, this is near to impossible in USA where the anti-gun control lobby is arguably the most powerful after the tobacco lobby. Their stand is "Guns don't kill people, only humans do". In such a scenario it is impossible to enact such strict laws. India is a step ahead in this matter and getting a licence for firearms is near to impossible unless you are a big-shot minister, actor, businessman or a "reformed" gangster. Hope we do not see a Virginia Tech-like situation in India in the distant future too.