I don’t know if it’s that easy.

Well let's look at literally any other country on the planet as a sample, for instance Australia who very recently gave up their right to firearms in the 90s through a buyback program that destroyed a third of the weapons in the nation.

In 1996 they did this as a response to a mass shooting that killed 35 and injury 23. And they went from having several major public shootings within a decade, in part through gang violence, to having not a single one in 2 decades. Gun violence dropped 61%.

It’s exactly what was said aboit drugs 50 years ago

Drugs are not guns. You cannot conflate actions of entirely different natures pretending they should legislated the same. Should we not make anything illegal because making drugs illegal didn't work? Meanwhile restrictions on high explosives seem to work quite well.

Drug laws were also never meant to reduce drug use. Especially when the government was the one introducing the drugs to black communities at the same time. It was, as it has been admitted by cabinet members, and attempt to make being a political enemy of the administration a crime by criminalizing behaviors common of those political enemies.