No more guns, ever

Most of the time police respond to a gun crime the shooter is long gone. I question the logic of being lethally armed as protecting police lives. What I'd like to see is an analysis of all of the situations in which police found themselves firing their weapons over the last say 30 years - how would a non-lethal like a taser have changed the situation? What is the practical net effect overall, all things considered (individual and societal psychology included)? Carrying a gun every day and everything that entails is what attracts many people to the police force, and I think it can be fairly hypothesized that such an initial distillation of character types primes the service for a certain brutish culture. You add to that the fact that police are keyed up from being exposed to life and death situations whenever they're out, and it's not surprising that you get the nervy cowboy effect we've been seeing with these unnecessary shootings and bullyings. The second amendment be damned, guns are technology that is ruining everything, not only should every single one of them be as illegal as a hand grenade, their manufacture needs to be severely curtailed. Other than how fun they are to shoot, there is nothing at all about guns that is good for civilian society. They are way too powerful and way too easy for young, immature people who don't know how to deal with overwhelming emotional problems to access. This is the only country where there are regular mass shootings of innocent people in public places, even little kids. We have to do something about it, we need to try some potential solutions.