You don't seem to be offering a solution here.
I have to say that I would not vote for you if you had a platform on the above statement.
As I said originally, I am not sure that there is a problem. It is a choice you make. I only say say that when it happens next time, no one should really be complaining about it. Sure, we all blame the shooter and whatever his evil motives were, but you can't complain. You can't say, when it happens to your fiancee or your brother or your mother and father 'why me, why them?' because you already know 'why me, why them?' It is your own choice as a people.
So I would counsel 2 possibilities.
1) If it is possible to somehow change your attitudes, then that should be the first and best solution. But this is a very nebulous concept and is unlikely to happen short of some massive national disasters.
I was an active alcoholic for many years. And from time to time through those years someone would point out to me that I drank far too much. And that I was possibly alcoholic. But their observations meant nothing to me because the word "alcoholic" meant nothing to me. I would tell them that sure, I was probably an alcoholic, but so what? To me, being alcoholic was like having blue eyes instead of brown. It was just something I happened to be. And everyone was something or other.
But as the years passed, it became more difficult for me to see it that way. My life seemed to traverse one disaster after another, and many of them seemed to be alcohol related. And in time, the word "alcoholic" came to mean something, … and something unpleasant. My own suffering had begun to make the label real. And it was getting worse as time passed.
Eventually I decided I didn't want to be an alcoholic, anymore, but to my shock, I discovered that it was not my choice. That I couldn't just stop drinking even though I finally wanted to!
Well, there's more to that story, of course, but this much gets us to the point. The United States doesn't recognize that is has a serious problem with gun violence, yet, because it still minimizes and excuses and forgets the consequences of the problem. Sure, we see the numbers, and we see the bodies on the TV, but in truth they don't mean nearly as much to us as the idea of killing those bad guys does. We really like that idea of killing the bad guys. But ignoring the consequences of this lust for bloody revenge
is getting harder to do. And it will continue to get harder to do. The numbers keep climbing, and every time someone dies, there are a dozen people left suffering a devastating loss. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. Uncles, aunts, cousins and friends. All left broken-hearted and starkly aware of the utter senselessness of it all. While the rest of us ignore their loss, and their suffering, in our lust for the just and violent vengeance that is the "American way".
Until it's one of ours, killed. Then our ignorance and excuses won't work. And we'll find ourselves face to face with the ugly stupidity and futility of our own violent mindset. And then we'll be changed. So I guess the question is how many of us will have to die before enough of us have suffered enough? And I don't know the answer to that question. But I do know that the more the people there are out there asking it, the sooner that number will be met.
Then once it is met, and we can finally face the insanity of our own lust for violent revenge under the false flag of "justice", we will become willing to change. And one thing I believe, is that when Americans make up their mind to do something, it gets done! We really are "can do" folks. And solutions aren't rocket science. They aren't even all that difficult. They just need the will and common sense of people who are willing to live by a different set of priorities.
You are right, it's about choices. And we just aren't ready yet to make the positive choice. But we will be, when neglecting it hurts us each, enough.
