I think the numbers speak loudly against the lie embedded in this cultural change. A Whitehouse report says that 438,795 Americans have died from AIDS in the last 20 years. At least 76% of them were male. And only 10% of those infections were due to heterosexual activity. That compares to an estimated approximately 420,000 firearms murders. (As with AIDS, those irresponsible persons who had the potential to be responsible for the deaths of others were themselves more likely to become victims: these numbers require us to consider that some 2/3 of the incidents involve criminals shooting at criminals.)
While Rome is burning, Senator Feinstein plays her violin of cultural diversity (example: her support of Boxer's proposed don't ask don't tell amendment in 1993 -- which failed).
The real threats to our health and welfare are front and center in our cultural decline. It's not popular to talk about the reasons for AIDS, or why our birthrate is falling, or why our families can't take care of each other now. It's also not popular to talk about the cultural component in our firearms statistics -- such as the lack of firearms mentorship for children and just why that might have evolved. The TV teaches kids all about firearms, and they witness 16,000 murders on TV by the age of 18, most by handguns. But why address the cause when the effect gets so many more votes?
Better get people all worried about guns and keep them worried. That way the flames roaring up from deep within the timbre of our civilization will seem unimportant...
The present trendlines don't go out much further without a serious social explosion.