> God bless the Second Amendment.

I suppose I'm one of the ones who doesn't get it. One of the contributing factors to this disaster is that citizens have been shooting at the people trying to help them. Guns are so common in the US that your enforcement officers must assume everyone has one. So you get treated by them as dangerous enemy. This has hampered the relief effort. For example, when workers have dropped off water, they've not wanted to stay around long enough to see it is distributed, or even to tell anyone that the supplies are there at all.

The effect of adding more guns is to escalate the fear and violence. It doesn't help.