We aren’t. Guns drastically increase the death rates of violence and attempted suicide. Banning guns will reduce these. It does this at the cost of the state obtaining a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. I believe we can drastically reduce the rate of fun violence through testing requirements before someone can buy a gun, like what we do with cars.

The state always maintains that monopoly. If citizens buy guns, the police militarize.

Citizens do not enact change with the state through guns, they do so through numbers, by turning out and striking en masse.