For a time. But if you made it illegal to transfer a firearm by any means and set up a buy-back program where when gun owners died the government would claim the guns and provide fair compensation to the estate you could get rid of the guns without taking anyone's guns away. It would take decades, of course, but every day there would be few guns out there and, importantly, the young people that commit most gun violence would be the people with the hardest time getting and carrying one. You can't expect we'll solve a problem that took decades to metastasize overnight anyway.

So there are solutions. That's just one. We don't solve this problem not because we can't but because we don't have the will to.

Until there aren't.

There were more buildings with asbestos in the US than people. Then we fixed it.