Because that rhetoric is true. The number of deaths due to accidental discharge is fairly low. The problem with just banning guns is there is no attempt to solv

Because that rhetoric is true. The number of deaths due to accidental discharge is fairly low. The problem with just banning guns is there is no attempt to solve the underlying problem. That a person picked up a gun with the intention to harm someone else. You take the guns away, that problem still exists, so people will find other tools to use. This happened in Australia. After that great gun ban, the number of homicides remained mostly unchanged. The number of gun deaths decreased by quite a bit. But the number of homicides using other tools increased significantly.