I understand the desire for gun control, and to some that didn't grow up surrounded by them how that would be seem effective. But the reality is that most homicides are drug related gang killings, and virtually all of them use your cheap, common, run of the mill handguns. Chicago is a 3 hour drive from here, as is St Louis. They both have huge gang problems, and of course guns are the weapon of choice. If you outlaw them, it will simply just be like drugs are, completely everywhere no matter how hard the cops try. It's been 50 years since Nixon declared war on drugs, now it's gotten to the point where over half the country has flat out legalized weed in direct opposition to the federal government because it's harmless. Since then we've had 2 opioid epidemics, the crack epidemic (funded by the same government to fund an illegal war to boot), the subsequent rise of the cartels, so much weed that you can find it anywhere without even trying, and for what. Nothing but a for profit prison system where 1 in 3 black men will do prison time in their lives, and 1 in 6 Latinos will.
Yes we have frigged up stuff here like school shootings, and honestly some common sense laws should be put in place there as well. I think that if your kid kills someone, you are responsible as well. They can't try kids as adults because they are not fully developed mentally, but you can try their parents for not being there and doing their job. It's like eugenics, but after the fact. Drugs need to be legalized and taxed, and all the money they waste on "stopping" them can be used to make sure if someone steps in them too deep they get the help they need. Prostitution should likewise be legal. If you remove the profit motive from illegal activities, you remove the illegal activities.
If you remove a tool they use to do illegal activities, everything continues the same. Imagine if gangs and school shooters here used explosives like they do in the middle east, because they would switch to that in a moment. A trip to lowes and a gas station gets enough materials for a bomb that is untraceable and will likely have far more casualties than your typical drive by in a city, and then the chiraq name would be completely real. Guns are pretty easy to kill with, but honestly if it came to it, not having them wouldn't even come close to changing the game. And arguments like "that's so much harder" don't really hold up when all sorts of strung out idiots are making several different varieties of meth in their purses and cars, even in walmart bathrooms. I would never touch the stuff and i know of 2 ways they use, and a quick Google search would provide all the info i would need anyways.