Its abundantly clear that playing with guns as kids, does not turn a person into a gun wielding murderer.
Damaged families, lack of ethics in the home, lack of genuine faith/religion in the home with a consistent moral foundation, the craptacular public indoctrination system that doesnt care about kids at all,
these things are far more to blame for being factors that contribute to violent male and female thuggery in society.
They don’t particularly care about the violent, thuggery types. It does scare the shit out of many, and makes everybody OK (sort of) with an over-reaching police state. So there’s that.
It is the normal, peaceable people, the great mass of citizenry who need to be disarmed, in their view.