Your cliché is a talking point: "Guns kill nobody--people do", is as absurd as "shall not be infringed". The more civilized our society becomes the more rational and safer it becomes.
The more poverty, the more crime and the more people in Prisons, jails and juvenile institutions [see link below]...
Prison growth, prison size, and racial disparity data on incarceration in United States
www.prisonpolicy.org
are the product and problem of the 21st Century Republican Party that has become the less civilized, rational or honest. The current iteration of the R Party wants to incarcerate more and more huge fiscal costs which create more disaffected parolees and children who are destined to become disaffected adults committing more violent crimes.