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Not even kind of close. Legal gun owners can be responsible and law abiding citizens, but you know the ones everyone hears about are not that kind of person. Why don't the good and wholesome law abiding gun owners root these people out? Is it because a significant segment of that population shouldn't own guns, even if they say THEY aren't the problem?
To put it simply.. If you had a Gatling gun on your vehicle, would you have used it by now? Most of us would admittedly say yes. Most of us, given unfettered access and anonymity, would have at least thought about doing something really stupid and illegal if everyone had Gatling guns mounted on their vehicles.
Most of us would have killed someone if the likelihood of being caught was minimal.. Which is why unfettered and semi anonymous access to firearms is an awful idea
While I agree with the sentiment, I wouldn't have killed anybody.
Good people find the idea of ending someone's life innately abhorrent and will hesitate to do it even if their lives are in danger.
It's why militaries (arguably) make sure to train it out of people and why abused women and targeted minorities aren't actually levelling the playing field by carrying a gun with them everywhere.
That said, what you're describing is one of the major issues with permissive gun laws -- it only takes a split second to kill someone (or yourself) with a loaded handgun in arms reach.