New legislation can help curb gun violence in the U.S.

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9. If one is motivated enough, one will find either. That is my point.

Both are ubiquitous and trying to eradicate either is both foolish and impossible.
I agree that if we could get rid of all the guns, then we would eliminate gun deaths and homicides in general. But that isn't going to happen as long as the Second Amendment stands as currently interpreted by SCOTUS.

As long as gun ownership is legal under the Constitution, there is very little that legislation can accomplish. This is the dilemma that America finds itself in and the rest of the world rolls it's eyes over. After sex, nothing sells better than fear, and the gun industry, with the help of the NRA and it's stooges, thrives on fear. They saw the opportunity to expand the market and took their merchandise to the streets. Every new gun bought to carry goes home at night. All these guns are handguns. Most folk used to keep shotguns or other rifles at home for varmints and home defense. Now they keep handguns at home and carry them in the street.

The only way I see handgun deaths being reduced, without banning them, is to make them safer. The gun nuts say this isn't possible, but it is. We have the technology to render guns inoperable when picked up by unauthorized users, just as a computer or smartphone can be secured.
But getting rid of them just isn't going to happen.