@calaverasgrande
I agree with you on a lot of what you said, but there's just one point about the regulations. I can see how annoying regulations can get, although I specifically can't think of any besides airline security or diving boards at swimming pools. I concede to that frustration, and yeah I don't think that regulations will fix the problems with racism, I think that it would take a long time and new generations of fresh minds who aren't entrenched in what their ignorant parents taught them to make society less racist. So yeah, I don't see regulations as able to fix issues with prejudice.
I do, however, think that some things are just common sense. For example, we don't allow people to own tanks and missiles, this makes a huge amount of sense to me. We check airport security extremely heavily so that people don't hijack the planes, I don't see many people taking issue with that besides for how utterly annoying it is. Yet, we somehow don't extend the same respect to our general society in terms of guns. The facts are clear, we have the highest ownership of guns of almost any country in the world, and we have the most gun deaths. You could also argue against that point and say we also have the most suicides next to japan, and say that mental health is probably an issue too. I'd agree on both points.
I don't think we should take away guns, my point is, we should respect guns as a safety hazard, just as we do driving a car or going through airport security. I don't think that we should have the same amount of security over guns as say, airport security, but I think that about the level of car ownership is necessary, and I like what Hawaii did with it's gun owner registry. Everyone except anarchists will agree, society needs laws and regulations in order to operate, that's why we don't go around with tanks and missile launchers. I think that common sense regulations on guns just make sense, and I think the solution of more guns supposedly solving the problem is absurd.