Broad approaches to gun control/regulation

[sarisataka]

3. Branching guns into the gun forum are we?

How novel

Controlling availability - this would be laws intended to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them, including strategies like registration, background checks, and so on, as well as laws like restrictive CCW intended to keep guns out of public space,

This would have some measure of success. If we could get the two reasonable people on each side to sit down and craft some good laws I would expect a small but noticeable effect.

Controlling lethality - things like 'assault weapons' bans that are intended to reduce the lethality/effectiveness of privately owned guns, and

At the risk of being offensive, this is ridiculous. Guns are lethal weapons, they will only make you dead once. Until a more reliable less-lethal weapon system is designed, guns are what we have.

Education - mandatory training like California's Handgun Safety Certificate, safety presentations in school, etc.

As you point out the least controversial and likely to have the greatest effect. Education will hopefully take some of the luster off the 'guns are cool' mentality. Combined with tighter background checks, there could be a significant decrease in deaths from guns.

Unfortunately none of this will stop the determined psycho.