- Ban military style assault weapons and high capacity magazines
- Ban hate speech and hate crime
- Make shooters anonymous
The easiest and therefore the first thing to do is never publish the name and photos of mass shooters and other violent perpetrators. You don’t have to be 100%, just try to be. It is the right thing to do. The shooters should not be celebrated in anyway.
Maybe the next hardest thing to do is ban hate speech. With the will of the people and the unified leadership this can be accomplished without legislation. Again, you do not need to be 100%, and you will never get total agreement from everyone. But we can eliminate the worst and most obvious hate speech. Especially the online variety, this should be easy to do with the online sources of hate speech.
Eliminating assault weapons will be the most difficult, but not impossible task. It may take time and there will be much debate. But without this action, super deadly weapons will be too available.
We may never eliminate them, but you make it much more difficult to get and to have them. That’s the goal. Not perfection, but the laws and attitudes are there for public safety and the greater good.
Time to stop sending thoughts and prayers. These do nothing to fix this problem of mass shootings in the US.
Leaders and politicians sending thoughts and prayers is the worst response to repeated mass shootings. Innocent victims and their families deserve more. We are not helpless and ignorant of the solutions. We are just confused by gun lobbies, the NRA, gun nuts, fear mongers and corrupt politicians.