Instead of paying all those cops to hand out literature, just put up Gun Free Zone and Safe Zone signs all around the city and then two, pass some really restrictive gun laws.
Your post reminds me of a letter to the editor I saw years ago. It was about some proposed NJ law to make something illegal in a “school zone”, or extra illegal I should say.
The writer said: just make every crime a felony in a school zone and then re-zone New Jersey so it is entirely comprised off school zones - our crime rate will drop to zero!
It’s like our employees in the government don’t want to do any real work at all, just BS make-work.