Now, if we just could de-fang Google, Facebook, the advertising networks that track users across websites and all the other data aggregators!
People don't become alcoholic because powerful beer industry spent money on preventing laws against alcohol.
Perhaps you're right, and we need to treat our countries addiction to guns instead of trying to reduce the supply.
Fixed it for you, as my side sees it.
There's no 'addiction' to Gun. I am an immigrant myself, and before coming to America I was anti-gun. Now, I am not scare of guns anymore and consider it to be a great social good.
Money's important, but you can ask the most recent stark example, Jeb Bush, just how far it gets you without votes.
And I'll add that only happened after there was a sufficient trail of dead or maimed bodies, enough atrocities committed by the BATFE starting in the early '70s (new law + sugar price supports putting their "revenuers" out of a job when moonshine became a hobby), that we got riled up enough to achieve this. As of yet, our lack of data privacy hasn't produced enough of these.