Not sure what all the moral panic and big recent push against guns is about, other than the effects of manufactured media hysteria and propaganda. Current US murder rates haven't been this low since the era of "Leave It to Beaver", even after the post-"Ferguson Effect" spike in 2015-16… and the amount of guns in private hands has more than tripled since those days.
You'd think that if "Mo' Guns = Mo' Murder" it would be the opposite.
https://www.infoplease.com/us/crime/homicide-rate-1950-2014
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/20/17882172/murder-crime-us-2018