I'd be against any reduction of handguns. The older I get the less I want to be lugging around a rifle or a shotgun. Besides, I'm partial to revolvers.
Don't get me wrong I know of someone whos life was saved because they had a handgun themselves when someone else was using a handgun to rob them. I'm simply stating that for all of the anti-gun control argument you can't dismiss the idea that a total reduction in the number of guns or in the case of the swiss, a reduction in the amount of ammunition accessable to the populace would reduce the overall amount of death, even if violent assults stayed constant.
Or to put it another way, I'm pro-gun because I live in the United States but if I was in another first world country I would not want the guns to be more accessable. When I was in Frankfurts RedLight district I witnessed a confrontation that, had the two parties had easy access to guns, I know would have ended in a shoot out.
"you can never stop a random act of violence"
Sure you can. You pull out your gun and shoot the perp. You can act faster than he can react. That's a fact, which is why police keep a safe distance when weapons are drawn. Hold a gun too close to a person and they can act faster than you can react. Always.