It seems to me that if the people opposing gun control measures put as much effort into addressing the problems as they put into bloviating about why such measures are impossible, we might be at least halfway to a solution by now.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'