Great, I am glad there is some agreements that laws do have effects and not as useless as some try to portray, so as to discount the role of gun control (old and future) laws altogether.
We can certainly debate on which law (together with other programs) can be more effective to “result in a better, safer society”.
We need to step up and find solutions to not let these children’s deaths and the 10,000 other Americans dying annually by guns to die in vain. We can do much better than the current status quo.
By the way, regarding “protection against tyranny”, my opinion is that the better weapon against tyranny is the rule of law, not one’s R-15.