[dawnbreez]

It's funny that you say "bring [it] into the modern era" when countries have been asking citizens to not use weapons for centuries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_the_German_Je...

You could argue that a 'modern' reimagining would disarm all citizens...except that this would leave us 1) without a militia and 2) with only a military...directly commanded by the President.

If you want to reduce the number of deaths per year, there are better ways to do it. I highly recommend providing a means of getting mental health care to people who need it--except that many people who like being able to have a weapon on hand for self-defense won't want to go, as they fear their ability to defend themselves will be taken away if they are declared to be of unsound mind. The paranoid will refuse because it'll seem like a conspiracy to disarm them, and the sane will refuse because they'd rather not give up the ability to wield a weapon, particularly against a regime that already mirrors the Nazis in uncomfortable ways.