How to stop gun proliferation in the US

[gejohnston]

5. ending the drug war will do wonders,

and hopefully do something about the forty thousand people who die of drug overdoses.
Will it do anything about the 20K suicides? Probably not. Would gun laws save those lives, or just make them rope deaths like the other half of suicides? Probably.
Most murders in the US are criminals killing each other in pockets of the country with high poverty, drug gangs, poor infrastructure, and political corruption. Look at the most violent cities in the world, mostly in South America, but does include Baltimore and Detroit, that is what they have in common. Nationwide, we don't have high levels of violence. High levels in some places, but almost nonexistent in most places.

Australia always had fairly strict gun laws, depending on the state. All had licensing systems some had registration. Also, out of the peer reviewed studies looking at how the National Firearms Agreement affected crime and murder, there is no evidence to support any claim that it had a positive or negative effect.