I don't believe the person that came up with the phrase "guns dont kill people, people kill people", was living in a world of complete denial at all. They were trying to assign the responsibility to the people that pull the trigger. To me, denial is blaming the gun more than the individual.
Your example of the gun ban is interesting, but one would have to see total stats to see if more up close and personal ways of dealing with conflict didn't go up since the easy way is gone. People just don't care or respect others anymore. You see it in the forums, you see it on the roads. The lack of individual responsibility is far worse than guns being available. It would be nice if you could make them all go away, but then it would be back to long knives and swords again.
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