Brisket, this is a simplistic platitude that gets us nowhere.
Guns don't cause deaths. I would guess that you can take every gun owned by ever person on this board ---- including a 30-30 that I have that is 124 years old ---- and collectively they have caused ZERO deaths. I believe you, yourself, own guns. How many deaths have they caused? If guns cause deaths, how could this be possible?
What causes death is people + guns. Take either one of those two things out of the equation and gun deaths go to zero.
I guess if you really want to be technical its people + guns + bullets/lead shot that causes death, but I'm just going for back-of-the-hand causation.
Sadly, some people can't be trusted with guns. That's just a fact. I can be. You can be. The whole of Surlyhorns, presumably, can be, but some people can't. We see the evidence daily. Couple that fact with the fact that those same people now have easy access to extremely efficient/lethal guns, and it becomes a huge societal problem.
The problem isn't the guns. It isn't the people. It's the people with the guns.