If some people don't want guns to be prevalent in society then they must curb the demand not curb guns. The demand will decrease in proportion to how safe the public feels.

They do not feel safe when crime is rampant.
They do not feel safe when politicians are calling to defund the police.
They do not feel safe when prisons are being emptied out.
They do not feel safe when police arrest a criminal and the court system lets them out the back door.
They do not feel safe when Mental health institutions are emptied into their neighborhoods.
They do not feel safe when their politicians are lying to them.
They do not feel safe when government is not transparent.
They do not feel safe when they can be threatened by their government.
They do not feel safe when they are left defenseless in high crime areas.
They do not feel safe when government wants to infringe on their natural rights.
They do not feel safe when politicians appear to be above the law.
They do not feel safe when looting and pillaging are called peaceful protests or equated with a "summer of love".
They do not feel safe when their government is sicking the IRS on them.
They do not feel safe when they are unfairly overtaxed.
They do not feel safe when government is spending them into oblivion.
They do not feel safe when their borders are left open.
They do not feel safe when their government is encouraging human trafficking across their borders.
They do not feel safe when their cities are filled with homeless tent cities.
They do not feel safe when drug addicts are filling the streets.
They do not feel safe when they are told there will be food shortages.
They do not feel safe when their national sovereignty is sold to foreign interests that are not their elected representatives.
They do not feel safe when crises are used for political advantage.
They do not feel safe when they find they are being illegally surveilled by their government.
They do not feel safe when social media is compiling profiles on their everyday life, invading their privacy and using them as commodities.
They do not feel safe when their military is being "feminized" and at the same time politicians are sabre-rattling with foreign nations.
They do not feel safe when their election integrity is held in suspicion.
They do not feel safe when the President is feeble and appears to be a front run by proxy.
They do not feel safe when there is an apparency that a major political party is vilified and persecuted while the other is held sacrosanct.
They don't feel safe when communism/socialism is pounding on their door.
They don't feel safe when politicians spend millions protecting themselves and very little on protecting children in schools.
They don't feel safe when politicians mandate their behavior but don't follow their own mandates - unless there is an opportunistic photo-op.
They don't feel safe when special interest groups or corporations are granted privilege above that of the individual.
They don't feel safe when they can't peaceably assemble.
They don't feel safe when freedom of speech is at risk.

Anyone can add many more things to the list I'm sure.

People who think the government will protect them from other people are already too cowed to realize where the real threat is coming from. The sky is falling and they are running to the fox's den.

It is true the country is divided and there is increasing violence. It may look like "other people" are the problem but it is mostly because government is enacting policies that encourage it - purposely failing in their mandate of securing the individual's freedom in their pursuit of happiness in order to aggrandize themselves and centralize their power and control. The more paranoid politicians get over their concern of disagreement in the populace the more tyrannical they are allowed to become.