So are typhoid and cholera — and civilized societies enforce reasonable laws to prevent them from disrupting life.

BTW, in case you're wondering: I'm a Texan who has owned multiple firearms for pretty much my entire adult life — I was taught to shoot at about age eight by my dad, with more-advanced instruction a decade or so later, courtesy of Uncle Sam.

You know that, unlike typhoid, there is absolutely zero chance that private gun ownership in the US is ever going to be abolished, right?

"Unlike typhoid"? We've yet to abolish typhoid; the U.S. gets about 200-300 cases per year, mostly from travelers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933273/

And both typhoid and cholera have a nasty way of reappearing when natural disasters occur and sanitation takes a hit.

But hey, since we can't ever achieve 100% success for all time, then we should just throw up our hands and learn to live with 100% failure, right? Yeah, that's the ticket ....