If there is an analogy, it would be, as in the last para of the article: "(some gun control) is probably not as powerful as a real (effective gun control, like nearly every other developed country has) would be, but it's way easier to make on short notice, or by a single person (US state). Sometimes you need to stop overthinking everything and just try an idea and see if it works."

This all supposes that people would see that the idea works, understand something that they did not before, and change their minds; which I find overly charitable as applied to real-world problems. Dogma, propaganda and wilful blindness to facts known already plays a huge role.

Housing fixes everything is a lot more difficult to measure outcomes.

Also, killing werewolves increases every existing owner's property values, but increasing housing does not, and should, per economics, tend toward devaluing their precious property values.