Agreed. The flippant and shocking casualness to guns in the household and in everyday lives is what the real tragedy is here. Gun control at least plants the standard in people's heads that guns should not be available and should be locked up. You can't prevent every accident, but you can start with setting "house rules", which are long overdue in American society.
It starts with laws and people gradually accepting them into their everyday lives. Kind of like the "no talking on cell phones while driving" rule that is now in place. It took a couple of months to figure it out, but most people do not talk and drive anymore, even if there are a few outliers.
Absolutely gun control is required as a bare minimum to deal with what is otherwise a national systemic problem with deep-rooted and misaligned values.
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