That's not the case, at all. Might as well get into it right now, like it or not. So, in your analogy, guns are the problem with people getting shot. Couldn't possibly defective people, could it? That is the real issue here, like it or not.
I've been running this thing for 13th year now. Nothing has changed in the operation of the actual shoot. Much has changed in the size, and much has changed in how we organize camp, to handle the size. The vetting process failed, bad, this time. Her husband is an autistic alcoholic, and is currently in the alcohol program in the Army, by his own admission. He already has issues with alcohol, and is in trouble for it, in the Army.
She was walking around with 2 unopened beers in the crook of her arm, one bottle of liquor in that same arm, and her opened beer in the other hand. And trying to slap-fight everyone in camp. He was drunk as fuuck, and went full-on racist right there at the fire. Then he shoved her to the ground...
It wasn't hard alcohol being present in camp - it was two defective people being drunk as shiit in camp, and making asses of themselves.
So, no matter how much you don't like it, and think it should stop - remember this... You have been invited into that camp, Todd. This is a place to gather for friends that I've made over the years, and it's taken years to build that up. We let people bring friends, but that part needs work. The vetting process needs beefed up, and we (and I'm talking about the core group of people that have invested years into this, and that's a small group of people) need to fix that.
You may not like it, and that's fine, but what we do at the end of the day around the campfire isn't gonna have a bunch of rules put on it. Regardless of whether you agree with that or not.