Hmmm, interesting take on the word "liberal" there.
So you espouse the restriction of peoples ability to carry out perfectly safe practices, and yet you claim to be liberal?
Prior to Dunblane and the buggers muddle of legislation that followed it, thousands of people throughout the country quite legally kept, and used, pistols. The level of pistol crime was very low, and legally held weapons were almost never used.
Now I'm not saying that Dunblane wasn't tragic, but if the guy hadn't had access to pistols, he could quite easily have done as much damage with a set of kitchen knives