But actual gun deaths among people under 20 are far more often among gangs of teenage hoodlums, who shoot it out over turf or drugs or other things. Such deliberate killings are not going to be stopped by child locks. What will be stopped by child locks and various other impediments to using guns will be self-defense. Some people who have received death threats, and then applied for a gun permit, have been killed during the waiting period. This is only one of the ways in which gun laws restrict only law-abiding citizens.
Facts are what matter.
Emotional outbursts or melodrama are what the media want and votes are what politicians want. If there are more uninformed or misinformed voters, then these are the ones the politicians will play to. Even when the national crime rate has been going down, states imposing such restrictions on guns have seen violent crime increase. What has actually happened has been the direct opposite of what the gun controllers claimed would happen. Sincere people may believe gun control theories and bogus claims, but the leaders of the movement know better.