“it’s a lost cause and we should just accept gang wars, school shootings, and armed muggings as a fact that will never go away.”
That’s not quite what I said. I said the “banning guns” solution is a bad solution. Sometimes a bad solution is worse than no solution at all.
I think school shootings can be largely prevented by having armed civilians in schools.
I don’t know the solution to gang wars, but I can’t imagine taking away their guns will suddenly make them all friends.