My rant here is why can't the two parties agree on sensible gun measures? I don't know, something that makes it difficult for a 19 year old living in a metropolitan area having a pistol and ammo for it. Seems pretty reasonable to me that 2 rational men with different types of feelings towards guns could reasonably agree on some sort of reasonable measures to remedy this type of thing happening. Taking away the 19 year old city boys ability to get a gun in an urban environment vs a 17 year old in NE using a pistol for target practice. Reasonable people can carve out a reasonable solution to this type of problem. It's not asking them too much to do it.
Shootings serve the interests of those who promote the policies that facilitate them, and that includes the GQP, but also Putin, who funds the NRA, Christian Nationalists and Federalist Society. That is why the victims nearly always are from groups identified by Christian Nationalists and GQP as being enemies, whether schools, LBGTQ, Blacks, Jews, Muslims etc. You shouldn't think that's just an unlucky coincidence. The GQP interest served by these mass murders is INTIMIDATION.
The democrap solution on guns is for the government to have control of all the guns just like in Nazi Germany and the communist countries like China and North Korea. You can go ahead and give up or register yours. I plan on keeping mine and I have no intention of registering any of them into a federal database.
MONEY !! MONEY !! NRA and their huge contributions to Repubs. Means more than lives.
tough ask finding reasonable people when you have the financial clout of the Rifleman Association and gun manufacturers. Money and greed trumps any reason. Errr money, greed and religion, trumps any reason.