Not really to the point, is it?

There is no point in reducing gun deaths if that does not cash out to a significant reduction in homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths.

If, for example, it doesn't reduce murders but only causes murderers to use other weapons, where's the beef?

But if a significant reduction in the availability of guns to the public would result, or could reasonably be expected to result, in a significant reduction in homicides and accidental deaths, that would be a point in favor of such reduction.

Kristoff says not a word about how far reducing gun deaths would affect deaths by homicide, suicide, or accidents, if at all.

And he is ignoring that nobody in America thinks there is a constitutionally protected, natural, God-given, and moral right to own or drive a car.

How to Reduce Shootings

Besides, Kristoff is not addressing the specific and limited question how to prevent mass shootings in the tradition of the Texas tower.