The US government needs to man up and stand up to the NRA. No more excuses are acceptable. "Guns don't kill people....people kill people". Yeah right, and they do it with guns.
IMHO It is just a question of mathematics.......
If you have a population of 300 million people and all have easy access to firearms then you could have, say, 299,997,000 decent law abiding citizens but also 3,000 nutters with easy access to guns. 3,000 is only 0.001% of the population who might have guns and also might be mentally disturbed and therefore capable of such an action even if only at some low point in their lives.
The result could be 3,000 such incidents. I have already lost count of the number of these mass shootings in the US over the last couple of decades but it is probably between a dozen and twenty....and that seems like way too many.
If it keeps happening then there will eventually be a tipping point where there are more close friends and family of mass shooting victims than there are NRA members...then politicians might have a knee jerk reaction and do something because there will be votes in it.
