Failing to understand the problem(s)...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. I think it's crass fearmongering. Diseases have every appearance of striking invisibly and randomly.

Against such a threat people want someone to swoop in with a cure to save everyone.

Killing with a gun, however, is an act of human agency. Even the deaths attributed to negligence require a series of decisions that led to the consequence. In other words nobody wants to confront the idea that what we're dealing with is not a disease but a symptom of human free will. Can we cure free will? Should we even try?

The public won't answer in the way preferred by those who resent free will because it interferes with their personal ambitions so they have to use different imagery.