To make this a simple argument, one only has to go and modify the Constitution to change the right to weapons, as something NOT a right. Then put this up for state by state voting, and wrap this up real easy.
The problem? It’s not a GOP issue. You can go to a hundred working class Democrats, and find that more than seventy percent have no real desire to modify the Constitution, and that they feel that the right should stay a right.
So you face the dilemma....the media just says to fix it. Well, when you examine most all mass murders, you come to the majority of these people having emotional issues and most (probably over 90-percent) should have been confined to a mental facility. Before the 1960s, we operated a simple system where judges and relatives could easily confine nutcases. Notice how when we got rid of the nut institutions...that these mass shootings picked up?
But do people want to go and put crazy folks away permanently? No.
So the rest of this game is just stupid discussion with no real solution. As long as it is a right...we don’t progress. As long as we pretend nutcases are normal...we don’t progress.
My first answer is. We really don’t have a gun violence problem in this country. Not if we look at the overall rate of gun ownership and leave out gun violence that is not suicide or gang related. So the premise that something needs to be done about “all these shootings” is based on a false premise and is about gun grabbing not finding a solution to violent behavior.
The big problem is that the system is not set up to react to red flags. There are concerns about stigmatizing certain populations. Violation of constitutional rights. Concerns about medical privacy laws. The answer might be expanding the idea of mental health court. Honest research into the connection certain medications have into violent tendencies would also be helpful.
It is not easy. In the end I am left with “Bad people do bad things.” So stay safe.