Gun control came about in 1968. How is it working out for you America! YOU wanted it!
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.
It goes back a lot farther than that. As in 1860s ... democRATs didn't want newly freed Negroes able to defend themselves.