A serious question about gun control- Isn't it too late?

[Jennicut]

67. There are reasonable steps that can be made regarding guns, mental illness, school safety etc.

To do nothing is pretty ridiculous.

I think many people want to frame what happened in Newtown and Aurora and Virginia Tech and other places as all about guns. That was only part of the picture. Mental illness has little funding, the insurance is terrible for the most part and even if people have the means for it they are too ashamed to seek help. I know, I have suffered from depression my entire life. Sometimes parents are ashamed that it is their child that needs help.
We are dealing with some things that legislation obviously will not solve totally. But we have to start somewhere. I mean, my cousin committed suicide with a gun to his head this summer. Newtown is 30 minutes away from me. I also grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was the place of one of the worst home invasions ever in the United States. I see gun ownership from all sides and understand that people may want a gun to protect themselves. I also know that just being around a gun increases the chance that you will die from one or you may use it to hurt someone else. You can't simplify things, I know all to well it is just not that easy.