Fewer cars equal fewer car crashes. Fewer knives mean fewer stabbings. Is it really that simple?
Yes.
In that case, let's delegalise all kitchen ware. I'm sure that would prevent at least 90% of domestic murders. But is this the way to go?
Kitchen ware is benign, it's designed for kitchen stuff, that's what it does, it's possible to kill someone with a whisk, but you have to be pretty determined and you have to have a fair amount of energy and strength to do it. Cars are benign, they're designed to get you from A to B, it's possible to kill someone with one, but it would be seen as misuse.
If the purpose of cars was for the killing of pedestrians, if that's what the car was for and its design was based around finding effective ways for you to do this, then I'd be in favour of banning it. It's not.
Guns are for killing people. That's what they do. The idea that we should be allowing them outside of military situations is absurd.
The US is in a difficult situation. It needs to stop the availability of guns to its general population and begin the process of removing guns from its streets - that's something that won't really make much of a difference for the next fifty or sixty years - it'll take a long time to make the US safer, but you have to start somewhere.
Genuinely, I don't think you could ever do it. As much as I want it to happen, I think the volume and culture is far beyond what we car address these days.