Can we stop pretending that this is a crisis of an inanimate object?  Mass murder will happen regardless of mode – and many nations with some of the highest murder rates have the most restrictive gun laws on the planet.  Mode is not the issue, even in mass murders - see also the Waukesha SUV Christmas parade attack, Yunnan province knife attack, and hundreds of others.  We have a mental health crisis – and mass shootings are just one symptom.

We are something that those who haven’t been can never be. We have something that you can’t buy. We are the .45% of modern society that knows what war really means.