Agreed - and the most that government can do about it is to regulate alcohol/drugs/etc. to minimize the collateral damage (which they can do only for legal products)
It's a band-aid kind of solution and of itself, this is like putting band-aids on a creeping skin cancer.
Agreed again. The most that government can do about it is not much. Strange that many alleged "conservatives" won't recognize the limits of government ability in this area.
There is also context-based treatment of the issue. A doctor who kept killing patients when the practice was known to be far better in its capabilities, would soon find himself facing manslaughter accusations if not worse. I don’t go to extreme libertarianism, but I believe the deemed crime should be in the way something is used, not in the item itself. Deem it a crime to misuse a gun or a drug, and we can validly debate over what should be deemed misuse — and that might include some kind of irresponsible sales policy — but not to basically have the gun or the drug.