I'm not sure how this all plays out in policy, but outside of the criticism of the gun community and it relates to deaths by firearms - we have half the suicide rate in the United States as Japan - which has almost no access to firearms by its general population.

It's worth noting in relevance, because the politics in Healthcare reflect the policy of public opinion as well as legislation around other tangent issues our country is trying to reconcile what it wants to do (if anything) about it.