And again a thread on crime prevention becomes a thread on gun control.

How do you go about changing the perception that violence is a solution? What do you do about the media? When that cat said, "Put up your sword, for those who take up the sword will perish by it" -- how do you get the message across to the neo-Christians?

How do you change a culture that, sponge-like, has been soaking up the notion of violence for hundredS of years?