Potential danger is socetial and police issue, but gun culture is another animal, and its prolly the main reason for it all, its so common and part of every day solution that its hard to see it in any other way for them.
The world's full of dangerous ghettoes, but you are more likely to be beat up, or at worse knife play, then to be shot up in prolly many countries that dont have similar kind of gun culture despite having similar or even higher levels of danger.