Guns do enough killing to be compared to car crashes: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...

Car crashes: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...

UK for comparison: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

To be fair though, the root cause is probably a mental health crisis, especially seeing that suicides outnumber the homicides. But it goes without question that projectile weapons make it tremendously easier for mentally ill or desperate people to kill themselves or other people.