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Cable news bro, those guys are comedians and clowns playing for the crowd. They're good at their job when they're funny, not when they're right. Guns haven't been allowed in schools or on campuses for a long time, and there have been tons of federal and state firearms regulations before Columbine, and since Columbine. Hell, Columbine actually took place during the experimental assault weapons ban the feds tried, but didn't renew upon findings that the criteria chosen were arbitrary, and 10 years worth of studies showing it had absolutely no effect on anything.
And therein lies the problem. Most Americans agree with the idea of reasonable firearms regulation. The problem is we already have reasonable firearms legislation. There's no shoe-bomb quick fix for something as unpredictable as school shootings.
The only quick fix would be to somehow get rid of all guns, which is 1. Impossible at this point 2. Requires drastic measures and would produce drastic consequences such as bloating our already bloated prison population, rampant police overreach ie Ferguson nationwide, creation of a prohibition-style black market and a consequent renaissance in organized crime, creation of an armed and unarmed class with rich people exempt from this legislation and criminals de-facto exempt, etc. 3. It is expressly prohibited by the foundational document for all of our laws. Bsaically, even liberal interpretations of our second amendment suggest you can be reasonably armed as an individual militia member might be, ie self defense against tyrannical foreign, domestic, or individual enemies. There's additional federal and state law and regulation to clarify this, but the bottom line is you can't disarm the population completely.
The problem with fixing these mass shootings by regulation is that nobody can actually write up a gun regulation that looks like it would have a chance of addressing these school shootings. We already have that law, no guns allowed in schools. It's always this conditional stuff like "potentially lower the bodycount" via mag capacity, or products of misunderstandings of how gun transactions work in the real world with stuff like "close gun show loopholes". Now we can, and do, discuss those regulations. In fact, it's what people generally argue about over the internet, laced with lots of unsolicited cable news bullshit both ways. The problem with all those arguments is that they're not very narrowly crafted to address the problems we want to fix. In short, we haven't regulated this problem out of existence because nobody has put forward a regulation that looks like it has even the vaguest chance of regulating this problem out of existence. I imagine it has something to do with the fact that it's hard to effectively regulate violent crazy people who can't care about laws.
Basically we're not Canada, and you work with the population you have, not the one you want. We lock our doors, and Glenn Beck is a bestselling author. Come to think of it you might lock your doors too if he was a bestselling author there.
