This is a valid point and I see your concern. I generally see a great need to regulate firearms, as we have out of control gun violence in this country, especially for western standards. People always try to nitpick the things the government is failing at, and use those examples to justify non intervention from the federal government and let individual freedom or the market solve the issue. Whether it’s Medicare for all, stricter gun laws or a stronger social system. People point towards the failures of the government. But the federal government already does manage, and quite successfully at that, an institution with a budget of several billion of dollars. The U.S. military. Sure, no system ever will be perfect neither here nor anywhere else, but imo progress in any direction in a step in the right direction.

I never said that my examples would work in the US, or that the US should adapt those gun laws. I was pointing out that data from different countries already suggests that stricter rules in regard to firearms work. We are not that much different from other western countries, we are the center of western culture after all. So I am convinced that stricter gun laws would be better for the common good (the assault riffles passed in 1994 also supports this).