like sure, cars kill people more, but also like we have things like traffic laws plus cars are heavily regulated for crash and pedestrian safety. Evidently, we can regulate cars but not firearms.
I saw
this xkcd, again, the other day. So it was also my first thought (along with the likes of the purely-automotive multiple-homocides/manslaughters as most recently seen in the likes of Berlin/Waukesha.
But it certainly seems strange to me that nowhere near as much attention is currently paid, in some quarters, to the possible ownership and use of slug-throwing death-dealers than to lumbering[1] multi-use machine whose central purpose is the movement of its operator and most of its other uses are to simultaneously move people or things the operator wishes to transport along with themself. I mean, my own experience of my driving lessons/test seem to be more than the popularised idea of Drivers' Ed 101, that is usually played down/for laughs in US fiction, but it seems that the gun-handling equivalent is even less of an inconvenience for many, and with calls to make even those nominal requirements into no more than hand-waves of official recognition of the right to ursine forelimbs...
Again, here I am showing how culturally unfamiliar I am with the reality on the ground. But I just remain consistently bemused. Never mind "separated by a common language", there's many other things that make me realise that no matter how much I think I understand America (by proxy, via the small or large screen, or occasionally a book), there is much that continues to bemuse me. My only consolation is that much less (or, of that that remains, more sharply stereotypical in scipe) British/etc stuff is 'thought' to be understood over on that side of the divide, with comcomitant changes in the reciprocal bemusement-quotient.
(You know, it's not unprecedented that an Amendment has been Re-Amended out of existence, if that's the problem. Not that I expect that this 'solution' is unproblematic and implementable in itself. All I know is that I know nothing about how to get from here to there, or possibly there to here.)
[1] You can't usually conceal-carry a car... With or without any necessary permit!