The moment you educate people that it's NOT OK to shoot people, the imagined 'need' for guns goes away, and disarmament makes complete sense to them

Unfortunately, the NRA and the weapons industry do a lot of lobbying and spend a lot of money on measures to ensure that the US public are not educated thus, and on instilling fear and paranoia.

Very few people have guns here, we're not scared. Average 70 gun-deaths a year in a population of 65 million v. 12,000 in a population of 360 million. Says it all.