When they recognized the ease with which pathetic social misfits can dispatch the innocent, the PM banned automatic weapons and people didn't fight it. No Charlton Heston went around screamin abt his cold dead hands. No bushmaster ads made it sound like gun ownership is equivalent to dick ownership. There were campaigns denigrating the need to own such weapons because "real men don't need them".
The home of Mel Gibson got their shit together fast. Look at the charts.
But this is a nation of slammable ectomorphic gun nuts and it always has been. How do youchange the foundations of a whole country without them buying in?