Percent reduction of gun-related deaths by color of gun.

There are already more guns than people in the US. If it was only new guns, I don't expect anything to change.

I am assuming US context for the question. I don't have such a good model on how the american mindset works so to me I just spot qualititive differences and I would be out of my league to guess on quantity data.

If there was a baby that was hungry, did not have it's diaper changed and did not socially interact with adults all day asking whether we can effect the chances of crying by altering the properties of tears would be strange way to frame the problem. Yet it would make sense that the child should not learn that hissyfits are the effective way to get your needs taken care of. And I would still encourage parents to pay attention to the reason why the crying happens even if they "should not give in" to the crying rather than dismiss it as illegimate. And "stop the crying" should not be the main objective althought it might be the difference between the illusion of being an effective parent / happy child and needing to attend to reality.

America has much more stronger ideas that place responciblity for individuals to fix things and if you can't do this having a "loser" status is much more likely rather than being "left out" or "abandoned". As a "loser" it makes more sense to try to "win" via violence and in a society that genuinely doesn't support it's citizens it might make sense to treat the situation as an informal war. It's a balancing act how the roles of society and individuals are organized. It seems that an american citizen can respectably and publicically prepare to use lethal force or use it as a threat. Coloring the guns would change the "respectability" aspects of those mechanics and the important bit might be that gun usage would be assigned a "frowned upon" or "try to avoid but we are not outlawing it" status. There is also a strange "evil people are gonna evil" narrative when more of a "poor people are gonna desperate" is more popular elsewhere. So rather than trying to lessen direct violence situations the american mindset is more about doing it effectively and correctly and on the correct targets. It leads to a strange "semi-duel" situation to what my sensibilities are "where is the police, why isn't this resolved with litigation?". The "semi-duel" situation keeps legimate gun use close to illegimate gun use which makes it difficult to sort correctly.

If in my society somebody got shot by a person with troubles, my instinct would not be to demand that more defence options in the immidiate situation should have been available but the danger factors what drove someone to be violent should be addressed. To an american this can sound a lot more like "evil won this one" but to me it's much more tragic that mental health pressures leave people with no options so I end up asking for people to have non-violent options so that the usage of violent options goes down or that they don't have troubles in the first place that need desperate solving attempts. If I am in a village that contains 10% mentally unstable enough persons that could do violent crime based on that I would be alarmed on why the health system isn't correcting this error state where an american might be "it's fine if they dont enter my house/neighbourhood" and ask for effective ways to keep them on the right side of their fence. I don't want my fence to be a warzone delineator for that semi-duel. I want the combatants out of the game before the firing starts, I don't want to win that I don't want to play that. But that can lead to caring about peoples private business more than is customary in that part of the world. That can mean taking coersively tax money to alleviate societal pressure just for the sake of societal stability. Some people want to earn more and skimp on defence/stability. But at some point the tax savings might be lost on making an adequate wall.

To me the idea of solving a problem by raising a gun to my fellow human is making a PvP situation what is actually a PvE situation. If you shoot me the environment wins and we both lose. Thefore I don't want that the gun user loses. I want that we win. Even if reality is more of amix of PvP and PvE elements human-life is so deeplly in PvE domain that the sheer destructiveness of it should make sensible players to see that using it would be an error. Sure lets keep economical competition but lets keep violence out of it and make armed robbery not happen. If you are interested in getting your daily bread I want that to involve my life and not my death. Likewise my life should involve your bread and not hunger and wat the very least my death should not involve your bread.