Gun Control & RKBA

Plus, there's an age difference.

An 18 year old was given a gun, which is primarily an instrument of death. Supposedly this 18 year old was an experienced owner and user of guns. He played with the gun, shot and killed his girlfriend. There's a direct instrumentality here that is completely unlike the equivalence you are trying to suggest.

Oh, and bars have been implicated as accessories when someone is served alcohol and then goes off and kills someone in a drunk driving incident. So yeah, maybe you should be charged as an accessory. Although I'm not suggesting that, because I see a distinct difference between the two situations that seems to escape you.

I happen to live in New Mexico, which seems to have an extraordinarily high rate of drunk driving deaths. So much so, that many of the bars and restaurants I frequent are pretty strict in their limits on how much alcohol they'll serve. Which helps a bit, I suppose.

I will say I've never lived anywhere else where so many drunk drivers manage to get on an interstate going in the wrong direction. And given our relatively low population, and our dearth of interstates, that's a pretty admirable achievement.

But I still see guns as fundamentally different.