re: #7 Interesting Times

(and, as bitter irony would have it, aren’t non-lethal forms of self-defense like that heavily regulated or downright illegal in some parts?)

In an honest broad reaching look at how to reduce guns, we have to be willing to set aside some assumptions at least to consider. Like making the less lethal devices available to civilians. Sometimes that is a taser, sometimes a spray. There are some laser dazzling devices. All of which are far less likely to kill or main than any defensive weapon like a gun club or knife.