This is the opinion of The Flint Journal News Leader Bryn Mickle.

Where was the good guy with a gun when an Uber driver shot and killed six people in Kalamazoo on Saturday night?

Where was the good guy with a gun when a mentally unstable man shot a Bay City cop Friday before turning the gun on himself?

And where are the good guys with guns when the estimated 30-some people are slain by firearms every day in America?

No where to be found. And why? Because there are more bad guys with guns doing wrong than there are civilian good guys with guns trying to stop them.

If the shooters in Kalamazoo, Bay City and Flint had been carrying Korans with them, we would hear people shouting from the mountaintops that we need to crack down on radical Islam.

Instead, they carried pistols.

And the only thing we hear are crickets.

So how about this? An immediate ban on handgun sales until America gets its gun problem sorted out.

The Congressional Research Service estimates that there are 300 million guns already in America, according to National Public Radio. Nearly 11 million guns were manufactured in 2013 alone.

Even the gun nuts should be able to get by on 300 million guns until we find a solution to this epidemic of senseless death.

If history tells us anything, here is what will happen in the wake of the Kalamazoo death spree.

Nothing.

Flags will be lowered. People will shake their heads in sadness. And everyone will say it's a shame that we can't figure out a way to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

But there is a way.

Stop selling them.

Tell the NRA that gun sales are taking a hiatus until we get this problem solved and you better believe that the gun lobby will become part of the solution instead of a staunch advocate of the status quo.

America is a great country.

We put a man on the moon. Invented the Internet. And even created the cellphone.

Can anyone honestly say we can't find a way to keep guns out of the wrong hands?

Enough is enough.

We need to stop wrapping ourselves in the Second Amendment and own up to the fact that our gun problem is getting worse and will only continue to get worse until we deal with it.

Ban gun sales until we get this right.

Or eventually there won't be anyone left to ignore the problem.