"I'm not strictly antigun. Even my hippie uncle was comfortable with rifle use. But I am against gun 'culture'."
Quite. I was brought up in a rural area where every farmer had a couple of shotguns for shooting rooks and pigeons but on the other hand in my long life I don't think I've ever seen a handgun - that's quite a cultural gulf from the States.
Maybe banning handguns would be the logical first step. There's no decent logical reason for having them.