When confronted with global problems, mankind does some totally idiotic things. They don't even drive them off road or fill them with people. They use them to commute to work.
Children playing with firearms kill themselves.
Instead of modifying guns to make them childproof, gun zealots successfully lobby to keep them the way they are. Home invasions, mindless violence. At the same time, we carefully shield them from viewing people behaving in a loving way toward each other. Even in supposed comedies, verbal warfare is the norm. We have Jerry Springer dredge up the trashiest people in America to put on an obscene theatre of cussing, promiscuity and punching.