I think the analogy works very well, Idolator. After every school shooting, Republicans want to add more guns. Arm the teachers. Arm the janitors. Arm the parent volunteers. Arm all the good guys.
When maybe if the shooter hadn't been able to buy the AR-15s he used in the massacre, maybe the massacre wouldn't have happened. Or maybe at least not at the same level of destruction, had he used a less lethal weapon, one that didn't destroy the little bodies so much they needed DNA swabs from the parents to identify them.