Americans have somehow arrived at a point where they cannot conceive of human action that is not either prohibited, mandated, or, at the very least, centrally planned.

Just Like Drugs
The first problem is the goal. It is absurdly unrealistic to believe any set of rules is going to prevent anything from "ever happening again." If you doubt that, I invite you to examine the war on drugs. Many decades ago, politicians decided American citizens taking heroin was never going to happen again. They banned that drug completely. You aren't allowed to possess or sell it under any circumstances. Not after a background check. Not with a doctor's prescription. Not at all.

Today, that drug is at the center of what the same government calls an opioid "epidemic." Epidemic. So much for heroin overdoses "never happening again."