Who'da thunk it? Really?! You mean there are people who would knowingly and intentionally fire upon another person or other people? Get outta here!

On my planet, we call those people psychopaths or criminals…which is just different degrees of the same thing. On my planet those "not working towards the objectives needed" are part of the problem and not part of the solution.

I disagree, you see so often things escalate to pulling a gun and getting shot. If people only had bare hands.. few punches in the face is generally enough to get the anger out that doesn't result in someone dying

Think about your first statement. Now think about murdering somebody. Go on, you know you want to. To make this thought exercise easier, let's say it's a "crime of passion." If it happens outside of the home, how exactly would you go about murdering this person? Shooting someone, once the psychological barrier of actually doing it is surmounted, i's just so easy. With a knife, it's a whole 'nother process, both psychologically and also physically. It's hard to knife someone. And further down the line (bludgeon, physical assault) just gets more difficult if you don't have the element of surprise.

Of course it wouldn't be 0, as you state. But it wouldn't be what it is today with sane restrictions in place...kinda like most of the rest of the world. Sorry for the length of this reply.

That's quite a stretch there from "every gun death is preventable" to "unanimously give up violence," although it's a noble sentiment...to which you've immediately admitted defeat.

Yeah every argument of this form is the same: “why have laws against something if people won’t follow them 100% the time? Better to have no laws against it, then.” Doesn’t make any sense.

"But Australia got rid of their guns!"

Australia is an island that is pretty far away from countries run by cartels that make their money shipping contraband across the border.

It appears you have a problem parsing simple sentences. For your convenience…

"Every single death by a gun is 100% preventable."

You, like others here, seems to confuse "death by a gun" with death or murder in general. I, and most likely Mr Gilchrist, didn't think the concept would be so hard to grasp. As I said in the original post, though…

…firearms are so ingrained in American culture —unlike almost any other world —that it’s going to take a seismic cultural shift in attitude to see a magnitude less of disgraces like the almost-daily mass shootings in public places, to avoid horrors like this child who shot himself in the face, unfortunately just another one of the many instances.