You’re right about that. But a lot of writing even to the days of the psalms and the book of job is nothing but this kind of lamentation.

It reminds me about a conversation I had with my brother, a very enthusiastic hunter. Behind our racial profiling and the prevalent use of guns is this problem that we live in a society that sees violence as an more than adequate solution to their problems. And where gun laws are very restricted, they either smuggle in the guns as the terrorist bombing in Belgium or France have shown. In the UK, violence shifts to knife and blunt weapon attacks. Jo Cox, to many in the UK, maybe the poster girl for violence actually effecting a solution to their satisfaction regardless of how preposterous it sounds to you and I.

My brother in law claims in Australia, when their gun laws tightened so that the government could confiscate their guns, people in the cities gladly complied. Rural Australia buried their guns with pvc pipes so they can get them in case of an emergency to the tune of perhaps at least hundreds of thousands of guns.

Regardless of the tales and antidote you can present either way, one thing is true. Get a society to turn negative about viewing violence as a solution is a better starting point than either just restricting or relaxing gun control. Both options will backfire.