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We are just paying "the price of freedom."

Actually, I'd say it's the price of liberalism. Kids raised without parents, dumbing down education so that every student can feel good about being average, violence in the city slums that we cannot fight but "must try to understand the reasons for the person's feelings and action", banning even a word about religion in public places under the "separation of church and state", MTV and it's 'gangsta rap' drivel. I could go on. It's not surprising that a kid could become so detached he does not know right from wrong. The kid is to blame, and ultimately society's decay is to blame. The gun(s) are not responsible, the person is.

Again, we have to go over this for dumb-a$$ anti-gunners. There is not a scintilla of evidence that the availability of firearms causes an increase in homicide. In Israel firearms are common, yet homicide rates are low. In Switzerland infantry small arms are kept in private homes by members of the Swiss National Guard. Switzerland has very low homicide rates. In states with the least firearms restrictions there is often lower homicide rates than in states and municipalities with severe restrictions. Los Angeles and Washington D.C. have heavy firearms restrictions and high homicide.rates.
Lack of moral values causes murder and every other type of crime. When I was in high school I had all kinds of difficulties with fellow students and teachers. Being in a rural area we had several firearms in the house. Not once did I consider offing anyone I had a dispute with. Reason: moral values. When moral values are restricted you will have not just homicide, but out-of wedlock births, dope addiction, theft, vandalism, etc. When a child has a strong sense of community and moral values, to take up a weapon to get revenge or to assert himself will simply not enter his mind. The world is filled with all kinds of instruments capable of creating death and destruction besides firearms.