elementary schools I work in.

(Two so far this year - one arising from a traffic altercation, one last year and one the year before. Around the five and six year olds.)

would say that these incidents are caused by those who carry guns "illegally." The fact is that the victims (including those who are not physically injured but are traumatized) don't really consider the "legality" of the cause of their injuries. Guns are designed to kill living things including children.

All guns (except those manufactured privately) enter our society as "legal" guns through a licensed dealer, or are purchased directly from the manufacturer by a government entity. Those guns become "illegal" when they are allowed to be sold as "straw purchases," advertised and sold on Craig's List, transferred in an alley behind a gun show, or are stolen from a careless owner.

Instead of enacting laws strengthening the safekeeping, sale, transfer, or disposal of guns, the right wing gun lobby promotes an arms race using fear of illegal gun owners as the "enemy." Bottom line? More profits.

between two lawful gun owners.

So was the shootout between the cops and a lawful gun owner a few months ago.

The ones before that may very well have involved illegally owned guns, but as you point out the illegal gun ownership comes about because of rules that the "responsible gun owners" fight to keep in place.

to carry weapons on private property either, unless you have permission to do so. This is in part what Scalia was getting at.

Something the NRA will try to chip away at as well.

If you respect private property rights and want to keep your job.......then all the pro-gun chest beating and manliness is just that. There is a disconnect here.

You own a gun, you are free to carry it to your car, to drive around with it, but if businesses, employers, etc. were to push back in a concerted effort...........well, what is the purpose of carrying a gun if you have to leave it in your car almost everywhere you go?

in Heller, the only place where there is a Constitutional "right" to keep a gun is in the home. Public carry and display varies from locality to locality, and the NRA right-wingers want to enact nationwide concealed/open carry where the States have no choice in the matter.

In a civilized society (and there many such examples, not counting the USA) there is no need to carry a gun in public. In these societies the gun-related injuries and deaths are a small fraction of those in the United States.