Gun ownership in the US responsible for Florida shooting?

FLORIDA SHOOTING IS NOT THE FIRST THIS YEAR
In the first two months of 2018, there have been 18 school shootings across the US--an average of one school shooting every 60 hours. Before the Florida shooting, three deaths took place in school shootings this year

GUN ATTACKS IN THE US HAVE BECOME DEADLIER
The Las Vegas attack in 2017 was the worst in recent US history claiming lives of 59 people and leaving 527 injured, followed by the Orlando nightclub massacre in 2016.

More Americans have died from firearms in the last two decades than in America's global war on terror.

BUT GUN DEATHS ARE NOT JUST ABOUT HOMICIDES
Of 33,599 gun deaths in the US between 2012 and 2014, 11,726 were homicides and a whopping 21,058 were suicides.

IS GUN OWNERSHIP THE PROBLEM?
Gun ownership in the US is high around 40 per cent of households in the US own one or more firearms.

Source: Statista & News reports