My actual opinion on gun control:
-Responsible gun owners who use safes etc aren't the problem.
-Vast proliferation of firearms and ease of acquisition either legally or illegally is.
-The two are related, lax regulation of legal guns fuels illegal ownership.
-The US needs strong gun regulation to reduce this (in US terms this is "gun control").
-It also needs a one-time buyback and destruction of a huge number of guns to reduce the amount already in the wild.
-This will likely require a Constitutional Amendment which is unlikely due to massive partisan gun lobbying and the split of public opinion.
--> Only solution is for the American people to change their mind. Failing that, well lie in the bed that they made.