Law enforcement says you have two choices to curb gun violence. Either accept gun violence in America or take away all the guns. They neglect to ever talk about the third choice. Regulate and rigorously qualify all those who want to arm themselves with concealed weapons in the workplace and on the streets.
If employees and citizens were allowed to carry concealed weapons, of course, there would be unintended consequences but critics charge armed employees and citizens could possibly stop some of the carnage from getting out of hand that goes on in massacres today. Those who want to do harm to others may sometimes even have second thoughts on attempting a massacre of innocent people if they thought they themselves would be cut down and killed before they had a chance to kill large numbers of innocent people.
How many massacres of innocent men, women and children does it take for America to wake up the President, Congress and the citizenry? The current system in place does not inhibit killers from attempting a massacre of unarmed innocent people so at least try allowing large numbers of people to carry concealed weapons if they pass all the rigorous tests that would be required.
Politicians ask for more mental health services and more rigorous background checks but this will never stop the massacres of large numbers of innocent people in America so at least allow the citizenry to arm themselves and when a massacre does start to take place maybe, just maybe, the carnage will not involve large numbers of people and maybe, just maybe, the killer will get killed by alert armed citizens before the killer has had a chance to kill innocent men, women and children.
Too often those in charge and those in power in America are insulated from being victimized so they never feel the pressure to really do something to solve problems so the citizenry feels helpless. If left up to the citizenry to mete out justice and punishment gangs would not take over neighborhoods, gangs would not even exist, and serial killers, pedophiles, rapists, muggers and people with violent tendencies, all of whom prey on the helpless, the weak and those vulnerable, would think twice before committing crimes against those that are helpless. And if someone legitimately does not know right from wrong then they will be taken off the streets and institutionalized.