It does make a bit of sense, and there are other sane reasons to do gun control in the USA and stop their gun cults. It's a bit hard to get statistics on "unsuccessful" attempts because how it gets reported varies a lot, so although firearms are usually the most lethal, I'm not sure if they're the most prevalent when considering the failed ones.

But this is a common tactic of their media outlets, to frame every social problem as if the only way it could ever be solved is by voting Blue harder or convincing the Republicans to be normal, or some other nonsense. They always frame it in such a way that implies that common people have zero agency besides voting once every two years and maybe emailing a "representative."

I'm no church lover, but even churches can sometimes be more materialistic on these matters of social decay than the libs.