...and the NRA/GOA stand like a deer in the headlights to the future of stricter gun control and confiscation.
As long as those individuals and organizations, in support of the Second Amendment, do not address the problem of mentally ill minors and adults shooting up the place, confiscation will be the ultimate result.
I'm a life member of the NRA and yearly of the GOA and ignoring these shootings won't make their political impact go away.
Anyone who is legally permitted to vote should be permitted to own a gun -- mental illness or not. There are certainly inherent risks in that approach, but there's no way in hell a person who is deemed "mentally unfit" to own a gun should have any say in who serves in my government.