CD the conversation is bigger than just guns. To your point, I’ll stick to the topic. Clearly, something has changed, or rather much has changed since the days before the Columbine shooting. Prior to that, school shootings were not a threat. Why are there more and more young people willing to kill mass quantities of fellow students?
I don’t have an answer to the problem, but then again is seems no one else does either. Banning something seems like an obvious answer. Frankly, I might be able to get on board with certain types of bans or restrictions, however, I really don’t feel that it will change anything. When we do it and it fails to work, what then will be your answer? More bans? Remember prohibition of alcohol? Didn’t work.
I have listened to suggested solutions from all sides for many years. Most of the people pushing the banning solutions must realize it won’t solve the problem, but say “we have to do something!” Even if it’s something that won’t work. That puzzles me. Or, maybe they are naive enough to actually believe it will work.
New technologies and information sources like the internet will give people the ability to weaponize other objects. Do we just keep banning things?