Who has advocated punishing "millions of law abiding citizens"? Curious reaction, indeed.
So there's absolutely nothing that mankind can do regarding guns to make society safer? Yeah, that's what the NRA has spent billions of PR bucks pumping into some of you folks heads but not mine, thank you.
And how would one go about proving that Canada's programs don't have any effect? There are variables. Like population increases. Like incidents of other violent crimes. Statistics can be very tricky.
Ask my college calculis teacher who can prove that 1=2.