THAT ' S GOING TO LOOK REALLY STUPID AFTER HE UPLOADS ANOTHER PICTURE . <| sep |> You need to change laws in a way that really punishes usage of firearms for crimes . For example robbing a store without a gun would mean 35 years in prison , robbing one with a gun would mean 25 years . Enforce these laws and watch gun crime rates go down really quick . Another approach we have here in Germany is to make gun owners responsible when their kid manages to get access to their gun because it wasn ' t secured properly . We had a series of school shootings about a decade ago and one of the shooters father was forced to hand over basically everything he owned including his company so damages could be paid to family members of the kids his son killed with the fathers gun . It worked really well , we only had comparable killing spree in the 8 years since the new laws took effect .